What to Know About the Latest Court Ruling on the Abortion Pill
Olga Fedorova /SOPA Images/Sipa USA/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Earlier this spring, the Supreme Court hit pause on a controversial ruling in a massive anti-abortion lawsuit with the potential to eliminate nationwide access to the most common method of abortion. The case, brought…
Direct Democracy—and Abortion Rights—Win in Ohio
Samantha Hendrickson/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A Republican-driven effort to make it harder to amend the Ohio constitution failed in a special election on Tuesday. The defeated measure, known as Issue 1, would have effectively torpedoed the state’s direct democracy process, raising the…
DeSantis Criticized for Not Being Anti-Abortion Enough
John Raoux/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In April, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a six-week abortion ban into law. Still, that is not enough to prove he’s truly committed to being an anti-abortion advocate. This week, in an interview with Megyn Kelly, DeSantis touted…
In West Wendover, Nevada, Anything Goes—Except Planned Parenthood
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.West Wendover, Nevada, has long played a special role for residents of my home state of Utah: It’s where they go to sin. Just 122 miles from Salt Lake City, the tiny border outpost offers cheap booze, big casinos,…
Missouri Republicans Are Going to Absurd Lengths to Stop Voters from Having Their Say on Abortion
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey speaks to reporters in May.Kacen Bayless/The Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In May 2019, when Missouri banned abortions at or after eight weeks of pregnancy, abortion-rights advocates decided to put the issue to voters.…
The GOP 2024 Presidential Candidates Just Can’t Stop Talking About Abortion
Former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, former Vice President Mike Pence and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott.AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For GOP presidential hopefuls, the weekend that marked the anniversary of the Supreme Court Dobbs…