Abortion
Should Ballot Initiatives to Protect Reproductive Rights Restrict Abortion in the Third Trimester?
Melanie Folwell writes that a post-viability limit is the right choice for a citizens’ initiative in Idaho, but Erika A. Christensen argues that restrictions are never acceptable.
Melanie Folwell and Erika A. Christensen
Melanie Folwell writes that a post-viability limit is the right choice for a citizens’ initiative in Idaho, but Erika A. Christensen argues that restrictions are never acceptable.
Abortion Has Always Been an American Tradition
More than one founding father knew that to be truly free, women needed control over their reproduction.
Regina Mahone More than one founding father knew that to be truly free, women needed control over their reproduction.
The Fifth Circuit Seeks to Unilaterally Reimpose an Outdated Abortion Pill Protocol
What comes next is shifting terrain. The drug manufacturer has asked the Supreme Court to intervene, but the Food and Drug Administration could also step in.
Rachel Rebouché What comes next is shifting terrain. The drug manufacturer has asked the Supreme Court to intervene, but the Food and Drug Administration could also step in.
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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February 26, 2026
ICE’s Detention of Pregnant People Continues a Disgraceful American Tradition
Ira MemajWe are seeing yet another example of state-sanctioned violence against the reproductive futures of those deemed outside the national body.
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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 16, 2025
Why We Must Keep Talking About Abortion Pills
Regina MahoneAs 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.
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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.
Abortion
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March 9, 2026
How the Abortion Rights Activists Found Their Radical Imagination
Amy LittlefieldA long-shot campaign to restore public funding for abortion turned into the movement’s biggest success in a generation.
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January 29, 2026
What Marjorie Taylor Greene Doesn’t Understand
Naomi BeinartHer advocacy for Epstein’s victims is inspiring. But what about the rights of other women?
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November 10, 2025
Abortion Bans Are Never Just About Abortion
Kimberly MutchersonPeople who very much want to become pregnant could soon find their right to procreate restricted by criminal anti-abortion laws protecting embryos.
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January 31, 2025
Symbolic Legislation Will Not Get Us Free
Larada Lee-WallaceIf the Democrats are truly serious about protecting reproductive freedom, they must rise above reactive politics.