A New Poll Shows Trump’s Abortion Problem Isn’t Going Away
Demonstrators outside the Supreme Court in March.Eric Kayne/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.One of Donald Trump’s greatest political liabilities as he seeks to return to the White House is his position on abortion. Just last month, Trump rolled out a new stance in…
New York Is Suing Crisis Pregnancy Centers for Promising “Abortion Reversal”
Mother Jones; Lev Radin/Sipa USA/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Abortion rights advocates might be surprised to learn that, in deep-blue New York, anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers outnumber abortion clinics. There are more than 120 such centers (known as CPCs, though they also go…
The Governor of Kansas Vetoed Four Anti-Abortion Measures. Republicans Rammed Them Through Anyway.
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly said Kansas Republicans are trying to subvert the will of state voters—who upheld an abortion rights referendum in August 2022—via two new bills that critics say stigmatize abortion.Emily Curiel/Kansas City Star/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Monday, Kansas Republicans…
Trump Says States Could Prosecute Women for Abortions Under His Watch
Robin Rayne/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Eight years ago, in his 2016 run for president, Donald Trump said that women who have abortions should be criminally charged. “There has to be some form of punishment,” Trump said at the time. The comment caused…
SCOTUS v. Pregnant Patients: Idaho’s Abortion Fight Could Blow Up a “Revolutionary” Health Care Law
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in what could end up being its most consequential abortion decision since Dobbs. In a case pitting Idaho’s extreme abortion ban against a federal law known as EMTALA—that…
These Conservative Christian Lawyers Are Helping States Defend Their Abortion Bans
ADF attorney Erin Hawley outside the Supreme Court on March 26, 2024, following oral arguments in a case involving the abortion drug mifepristone.Francis Chung/Politico via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Supreme Court on Wednesday will consider its third major abortion case in…