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June 6, 2022
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court’s June of Doom Is Upon Us
The United States of America will be a vastly different country by the end of the month.
May 26, 2022
Grace Segers
Democrats Look to Women Voters to Save Their Bacon in the Midterms
Inflation, abortion rights, and rising childcare costs are the kinds of issues that motivate women to vote. But which party will they support once they get there?
May 23, 2022
Matt Ford
Abolishing Birth Control and Gay Marriage Is on the Table
With the Supreme Court poised to overturn Roe, and conservatives plotting a sexual counterrevolution, there’s no telling what rights might get abolished next.
May 19, 2022
Matt Ford
Clarence Thomas Is Throwing the Supreme Court’s History Out the Window
The conservative legal icon has a lot of disagreements with the Supreme Court’s decisions and is showing no hesitation in pushing to erase long-standing precedents.
May 18, 2022
Abdul El-Sayed
Michigan Is Becoming the Ground Zero of Abortion Battles
Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel may be the most important bulwark protecting Michiganders should Roe fall.
May 16, 2022
Michael Tomasky
“We’ve Crossed the Rubicon”: Brynn Tannehill on Our Post-
Roe
Dystopia
The author of “American Fascism” on the relationship between our rigged political system and abortion, same-sex marriage, and contraceptive rights.
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May 16, 2022
Alex Thomas
Donald Trump’s Gaffe About
Roe
Has Become America’s Worrisome Future
The anti-abortion movement once recoiled at the former president’s assertion that women should be punished for having abortions. It’s since started to embrace his way of thinking.
May 16, 2022
Melissa Gira Grant
Public Defenders Are About to Be on the Front Lines for Protecting Abortion Rights
If
Roe
gets overturned, defense attorneys will face a wave of new prosecutions targeting pregnant people.
May 12, 2022
Alex Shephard
House Democrats Are Backing Abortion Foe Henry Cuellar at the Worst Possible Moment
The party needs to decide what it cares about more: its Beltway friends or reproductive rights.
May 12, 2022
Magazine
Lidija Haas
In
Happening
, Unwanted Pregnancy Derails a Life
Audrey Diwan’s film recreates a woman’s isolating, wrenching efforts to get an abortion in France in the 1960s.
May 11, 2022
Matt Ford
What Samuel Alito Gets Wrong About English Common Law
A tour through the justice’s draft decision overturning Roe suggests he either doesn’t know—or doesn’t care—about centuries of progress.
May 11, 2022
Grace Segers
Sharice Davids Has Money on Her Mind as She Plots a Course to Reelection
In an interview with The New Republic, Kansas’s lone Democrat says she’s focused on boosting the economic fortunes of her constituents and staving off the effects of inflation.
May 10, 2022
Grace Segers
Overturning
Roe
Could Make Ectopic Pregnancies Extremely Dangerous
Treatment for this rare condition is separate from abortion care. But the sweeping abortion bans being considered in some states could have deadly consequences.
May 10, 2022
Katherine Stewart
How Christian Nationalism Perverted the Judicial System and Gutted Our Rights
Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked draft decision, steeped in authoritarian strains of religious dogma, is a road map for further erosions of the liberties all Americans enjoy.
May 10, 2022
Magazine
Madeleine Schwartz
You Go to the Labor Ward, and You Are Treated Like Meat
A Polish reproductive rights lawyer recounts the extraordinary obstacles women in Poland have faced since the country prohibited nearly all abortions.
May 9, 2022
Alex Shephard
With
Roe,
the GOP is the Dog That Caught the Car
Why Republicans don’t yet want to talk about the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
May 9, 2022
Michael Tomasky
Mitch McConnell Said Something That Can Help Democrats Win the Midterms
Democrats need to see to it that McConnell’s remark about Congress possibly passing a federal abortion ban is known to every single American voter.
May 9, 2022
Matt Ford
The Abortion Restrictions That Will Snap Into Place the Minute
Roe
Goes Down
Conservative lawmakers across the country have enacted “trigger laws” that will radically alter the legal landscape overnight if the Supreme Court overturns reproductive rights.
May 9, 2022
Magazine
Becca Andrews
The Last Abortion Clinic in Knoxville Draws Patients From Hours Away. What Happens If It Disappears?
Tennessee is one of 13 states with “trigger” laws that would fully outlaw abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
May 6, 2022
Daniel Strauss
Roe
Leak Fallout: Democratic Attorneys General Plan Push to Make Abortion an Issue
Exclusive: The umbrella organization of Democratic attorneys general is commencing a major expenditure to make abortion rights front and center.
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