What Abortion Funds Saw After Dobbs
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It took more than a month to pin down Megan Jeyifo, the executive director of the Chicago Abortion Fund (CAF), for an interview. She’s been understandably busy, growing CAF from an organization that served roughly…
The Hell of Providing Health Care in a Post-Dobbs America
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In her 32 years as an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist, Mary Norine Walsh has seen very sick patients and many deaths. “We’re not like orthopedists who only see one in their entire career,” says Walsh, a physician…
Sen. Patty Murray on the End of Roe and Her Long Fight for Women’s Health Care
Allison Bailey/NurPhoto/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), calling attention to women’s health isn’t new. While campaigning for Senate in 1992, Murray said she would ask all Supreme Court nominees their positions on “personal and civil liberties”—and vote against…
A Judge Temporarily Blocked South Carolina’s New Abortion Ban
Protesters against a stricter ban on abortion in South Carolina stand in the Statehouse lobby on May, 23, 2023, in Columbia, South Carolina. (Jeffrey Collins/AP) Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A South Carolina judge temporarily blocked the state’s new six-week abortion ban on Friday,…
Ron DeSantis Is All In—on Creating an American Autocracy
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.“Our government is a government of laws, not a government of men,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared last August, standing at a podium in Tampa with a phalanx of armed officers behind him. “That means that we govern ourselves…
North Carolina Became an “Abortion Destination.” That’s In Danger.
Bob Karp/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Saturday, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, vetoed a bill that would ban most abortions in the state after 12 weeks. But this is far from the end: The Republican supermajority in the state legislature…