Allison Yarrow

Birthing at home, I didn’t have to play defense. I didn’t have to fight for the agency and permission to do it the way I wanted.

When we met for lunch last year, the imperfect victim made clear she wasn’t just the punchline to a joke. A new documentary drives that point home.

The summer that she testified, I policed my own appearance and behavior to avoid any association with the infamous intern. And I was not alone.

The closer the music got to the mainstream, the more it got watered down, and yet somehow the loose collective's core message broke through.

Look back and see what we had to say about women in power in the '90s. It was horrific. It hasn't stopped entirely, but it's better now, and you have—at least in part—Monica Lewinsky to thank.

Word spread fast online about Alaska’s initiative to put pregnancy tests in bar bathrooms. Here’s why the tests are a good, and necessary, idea.

<p>The story of how the repeated sexual abuse of one Hasidic girl by a prominent man shook up her community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and tore apart their world. An excerpt from Allison Yarrow’s <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Devil-Williamsburg-Kindle-Single-ebook/dp/B00EDQIU4K/" target="_blank">The Devil of Williamsburg</a></i>.</p>

After a provider’s murder, women in Wichita, Kansas, have had to travel hundreds of miles for an abortion. Julie Burkhart intends to change that, reports Allison Yarrow.

An Oklahoma husband and wife have provided abortions for 40 years. A look at a day in their clinic.

<p>Four decades after <i>Roe v. Wade,</i> the U.S. has 724 remaining abortion clinics. From the dearth of clinics through the country’s center to the states requiring in-person counseling, <a href="/content/dailybeast/articles/2013/01/22/interactive-map-america-s-abortion-clinics.html">see some of the findings from our abortion map</a>.</p> <p></p>