Welcome to The Long Way Home, a five-part limited series that journeys into the heart of substance use disorders and recovery, with a focus on women and marginalized communities.

Background reading: LISTEN: "‘Not My Type’: How Two Women Took Down Trump on Sexual Assault (With E. Jean Carroll and Roberta Kaplan)" "The Part of the Epstein Story We Keep Ignoring? Survivors." — Ke...

Author and longtime Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll said Trump sexually assaulted her in Bergdorf, New York City, mid 1990s

At the O’Neill Institute, our mission is to build fairer systems, uphold human rights, and protect the health of every community. This commitment is rooted in our Jesuit values at

Background reading: 'The False Tropes About Rape We Must Destroy' — Amy L. Bernstein LISTEN: 'Fifteen Minutes of Feminism—The Trump Indictments: Unpacking the E. Jean Carroll Litigation (with Moira Do...

What really underlies attacks on our bodily autonomy isn’t a devotion to “life,” but a desire for dominance. “In the history of abortion, every single time there is a wave of criminalization of aborti...

The Atlantic called the president’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” the biggest anti-abortion victory since Roe v. Wade was overturned. That’s because the mega-bill includes a provision that will bar Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid reimbursements – not just for abortion but for any health service they provide. Michele Goodwin, Professor of Constitutional Law & Global Health Policy at Georgetown Law is among the many experts warning that this defunding will have a devastating impact on reproductive healthcare, saying in many of the communities served by Planned Parenthood, “there’s no other place for [patients] to go. There's no other clinic, there's no other county provider, and we are talking about basic health care, like getting vaccinated or even getting prenatal care and postnatal care.” Amanda Zurawski, a reproductive rights activist who nearly died after being denied an abortion under Texas’ ban, says stories like hers used to be shocking but are becoming so commonplace, as access to reproductive care is rolled back, that no one notices them anymore. “We're seeing [lawmakers] coordinate these orchestrated efforts to restrict access, you know, in more sinister and unfortunately creative ways, and it's working. And I think we have to really stay vigilant, and we have to keep an eye on our elected officials,” Zurawski says.