Reproductive Rights

This Supreme Court Term, Conservatives Have One Aim: Stop Progress

This Supreme Court Term, Conservatives Have One Aim: Stop Progress This Supreme Court Term, Conservatives Have One Aim: Stop Progress

During the next nine months, conservatives justices will use their power to attack abortion rights, weaken gun regulations, and rewind the clock to a darker age.

Sep 30, 2021 / Feature / Elie Mystal

EMW Women's Surgical Center in Louisville

These Cities and States Are Fighting the Tide and Expanding Abortion Access These Cities and States Are Fighting the Tide and Expanding Abortion Access

For decades, the anti-choice movement has focused on state- and local-level victories. Now, the abortion-rights movement is too.

Sep 24, 2021 / Amy Littlefield

The Virginia State Capitol

A Tough Candidate Forum in Virginia Previews the GOP Playbook for 2022 A Tough Candidate Forum in Virginia Previews the GOP Playbook for 2022

Democratic delegate Nancy Guy is facing an über-Trumper using culture war garbage against her. And it could work.

Sep 22, 2021 / Joan Walsh

Osama bin Laden Newspapers

Pick Up the Stone: The American Way of Vengeance Pick Up the Stone: The American Way of Vengeance

The line from defeat in Afghanistan to deputizing bounty hunters in Texas can be traced in blood—and history.

Sep 22, 2021 / John Scagliotti and JoAnn Wypijewski

How to Have a Safe Abortion—Even in Texas

How to Have a Safe Abortion—Even in Texas How to Have a Safe Abortion—Even in Texas

Elisa Wells, a Plan C cofounder, discusses the future of reproductive care after SB 8.

Sep 17, 2021 / Q&A / Gloria Oladipo

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

Problem Solved Problem Solved

Just don’t have sex in Texas. You’re welcome!

Sep 15, 2021 / Tom Tomorrow

Texas Abortion

Boycott Texas Boycott Texas

The rest of the country needs to take decisive action to stop the state’s appalling new abortion law.

Sep 14, 2021 / Katha Pollitt

Senator Susan Collins

Susan Collins, Brett Kavanaugh, and Texas’s Abortion Ban Susan Collins, Brett Kavanaugh, and Texas’s Abortion Ban

Collins cleared the way for Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court, and Kavanaugh cleared the way for this new assault on reproductive rights.

Sep 10, 2021 / John Nichols

Garland-DOJ-press-conf

The Justice Department Strikes Back The Justice Department Strikes Back

Since the DOJ cannot force Texas Republicans to magically become decent people, its smart lawsuit against the state’s abortion ban is the next best thing.

Sep 10, 2021 / Elie Mystal

Greg Abbott and Donald Trump

Texas Is the New Republican Template Texas Is the New Republican Template

What’s happening there is about much more than the fight over reproductive rights. It’s about political control.

Sep 8, 2021 / John Nichols

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