Woodhull Freedom Foundation and Allies Respond to UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls’
On January 30, 2025, Woodhull Freedom Foundation, the National Survivor Network (NSN), and Freedom Network USA (FNUSA) submitted a response to the United Nations Special Rapporteur (SR) on Violence Against Women and Girls’ call for input to inform an addendum…
The Reinstated Global Gag Rule
Trump is back in office (which perhaps bears no reminding) – and with that come his draconian policies, both old and new, including the anti-abortion policy known as the global gag rule. The global gag rule itself is some 40…
Criminalizing Sex Work Does Not Improve Safety or Public Health
Criminalization of sex work is often falsely believed to improve societal health, minimize sex trafficking, and keep sex workers safe. However, criminalization worsens these outcomes by driving both sex workers and trafficking victims underground, where they experience more violence, fewer social services, and less access to adequate healthcare. Decriminalization would be far more effective at ensuring sex workers' physical safety, economic stability, and physical and mental health.
Woodhull Cries Foul! At Slate of Alarming Bills Introduced in Oklahoma Seeking to Rollback Human Rights
Emboldened by President Trump’s election, Senator Dusty Deevers, an ultra-conservative abortion abolitionist, pastor, and Oklahoma State Senator, ignores the separation between church and state, Constitutional rights, and human rights in two slates of proposed bills. The first slate of eight…
What Meta’s Content Moderation Changes Mean for Censoring Sexual Freedom Online
At the start of the new year, Meta made waves when CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced they would be changing their content moderation policies to eliminate censorship on their platforms, Threads, Instagram, and Facebook. Zuckerberg claimed it was time to “get…
The Pornhub Ban Across the U.S. South
It’s nonsensical and draconian, and now, it’s reality: Pornhub is inaccessible in 16 U.S. states due to age-verification laws. Generally, as James Factora writes, such laws “force sites containing ‘material harmful to minors’” to “utilize age verification” and limit users’…
