Filed Under: “Abortion”
GOP lawmakers in several states move toward criminalizing birth control
By Kaishi Chhabra
Politicians in Louisiana, Idaho, Michigan and elsewhere are sponsoring legislation and holding hearings about abolishing Plan B contraceptive pills and intrauterine devices
With Roe’s end in sight, anti-abortion extremists fantasize about executions and civil war
By Kyle Mantyla
2020 Republican National Committee featured speaker and far-right podcaster call on GOP governors to execute people involved in abortions
Christian supremacists will not be satisfied with overturning Roe v. Wade
By Chrissy Stroop
Conventional centrist pundits were wrong to say the GOP would never come for abortion rights, and Christian supremacist activists many other plans
Supreme Court seemingly ready to remove key portion of Roe v. Wade
By Shefali Luthra
A majority of justices seems likely to uphold Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, a major weakening of the landmark 1973 case
To protect abortion rights, we need to start talking about miscarriage
By Liz Dye
Women who have miscarried know first-hand that a pre-term fetus is not a baby, we must use our voices and our standing as mothers to protect abortion access
The Texas abortion law’s vigilante enforcement mechanism is exactly how Jim Crow worked
By Stefanie Lindquist
Deputizing citizens to enforce legally suspect laws is how Texas suppressed black citizens’ rights to vote
Texas abortion bill inspired by radical Christianist activist Janet Porter
By Kristen Doerer
After decades on the fringe of Republican politics, the far-right former birther has become an inspiration for many states’ anti-abortion laws
Abortion opponents vow to pass abortion bills similar to Texas law
By Shefali Luthra and Candice Norwood
After SCOTUS temporarily upholds Texas abortion restrictions law, activists say they will copy its controversial measure
In their obsession over Afghanistan, the media ignored Texas’s far-reaching abortion law
By Eric Boehlert
Eager to aid supporters of the occupation, America’s elite journalists ignored authoritarianism much closer to home
In the abortion debate, don’t pretend that biology can answer the question of when humanity begins
By Sahotra Sarkar
Science can observe the various phases of fetal development, but it cannot determine when human life begins