Abortion
Abortion Bans Are Never Just About Abortion
People who very much want to become pregnant could soon find their right to procreate restricted by criminal anti-abortion laws protecting embryos.
Kimberly Mutcherson
People who very much want to become pregnant could soon find their right to procreate restricted by criminal anti-abortion laws protecting embryos.
Why We Must Keep Talking About Abortion Pills
As part of a delegation to Brazil, I saw how our countries’ respective struggles to maintain and expand reproductive justice are really part of the same fight.
Regina Mahone As part of a delegation to Brazil, I saw how our countries’ respective struggles to maintain and expand reproductive justice are really part of the same fight.
Symbolic Legislation Will Not Get Us Free
If the Democrats are truly serious about protecting reproductive freedom, they must rise above reactive politics.
Larada Lee-Wallace If the Democrats are truly serious about protecting reproductive freedom, they must rise above reactive politics.
Roe v. Wade
Trump’s Only Position on Abortion Is to Say Whatever It Takes to Get Reelected
The mainstream media is once again covering Donald Trump like he’s a normal presidential candidate, rather than someone who represents the “abortion is murder” party.
Andrea Grimes The mainstream media is once again covering Donald Trump like he’s a normal presidential candidate, rather than someone who represents the “abortion is murder” party.
The Battle on the Abortion Borderland, Plus RFK Jr.
On this episode of the Start Making Sense podcast, Amy Littlefield reports on abortion access a year after the repeal of Roe, and Joan Walsh talks about her experience with the anti-vax candidate.
Jon Wiener
We Need a New Body Politics
Our new special issue is about one thing: defending the right of everyone to be able to do what he or she or they want with their own body, free from political constraint.
Emily Douglas, Regina Mahone for The NationNewsletter
Reproductive Rights
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June 26, 2025
The Supreme Court Has Dealt Another Devastating Blow to Women
Elie MystalThe court’s ruling in Medina v. Planned Parenthood twists logic, common sense, and the law to further the right-wing assault on bodily autonomy.
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June 13, 2024
The Supreme Court Sides With the FDA on the Abortion Pill—for Now
Aziza AhmedThe outcome is a win for abortion rights, but the court left open the possibility of future challenges to the FDA’s regulation of mifepristone.
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April 26, 2024
The Reactionary Justices Won’t Stop Until Abortions Are Illegal Everywhere
Jeet HeerOral arguments in Idaho case make clear that further, even more radical attacks on reproductive freedom are coming.
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April 22, 2024
This Supreme Court Case Could Worsen Maternal Health Nationwide
Karen ThompsonThe state of Idaho wants the court to ban abortions permitted under the Civil Rights–era Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.
Abortion
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November 29, 2024
“We Never Assumed Anything”: A Lifetime of Providing Abortion Care
Regina MahoneIn their new book We Choose To, Dr. Curtis Boyd and Glenna Halvorson-Boyd reflect on their decades helping women who needed abortions—before, during, and after Roe.
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November 14, 2024
What We Learn From the Texas Town That Voted for Abortion and for Trump
Amy LittlefieldThe right to abortion won big this election—and so did the man who ended Roe v. Wade. Nowhere was that contradiction more pronounced than in Amarillo, Texas.
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October 30, 2024
On the Front Lines of Florida’s Abortion Wars
Simon Petite and Cristina De MiddelWith reproductive rights on the ballot, tensions are higher than ever in abortion-clinic parking lots.
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October 1, 2024
The Story of Sakinah Ahad Shannon, an Early Hero of Abortion Liberation
Renee Bracey Sherman and Regina MahoneSakinah discovered Chicago’s Abortion Counseling Service, better known as Jane, because she wanted to help a friend. Then she became an essential part of it.