The Louisiana legislature is halfway toward passing a law — like the ones enacted in Mississippi and Georgia — that will ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, about six weeks into a pregnancy.

Shouting broke out on the floor when a rape and incest exemption was removed without a roll call vote. "I want the people of the state of Alabama to know how we vote," said a Democratic state senator.

June marks 50 years since the Stonewall uprising, conversion therapy is officially banned in Massachusetts and 51 percent of people of color experience discrimination within the LGBTQ community. Those stories and more on our LGBTQ News round table.

Local working mom Sarah Friedberg has had enough of society's expectations.

Ohio is the latest Republican-led state to pass a ban on abortion once a fetal heartbeat can be detected. But Tennessee this week backed off on a similar bill, fearing costly legal battles. What now?

A bill imposing one of the most stringent abortion restrictions in the nation was signed into law in Ohio on Thursday.

"I think at this point the prospect is good,” Sen. President Karen Spilka said.

According to the most recent data, white women in this country earn about 77 percent of what white men make.

While men still outnumber women when it comes to winning elective office, more Americans than ever before see women as ready to serve.

Nearly half of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are women. And the men who are running are having to answer questions about gender in a way they've never had to before.