Telehealth Abortions Continue to Rise—Even in Banned States, A New Study Shows
A new study shows that telehealth provision of abortion pills continues to rise, even as anti-abortion lawmakers try to ban them. Olga Fedorova/SOPA/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Telehealth abortions continue to grow in popularity, even in states where anti-abortion activists try to ban…
What Happens If We Actually Treat Fetuses Like People?
San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In ruling that frozen embryos should be legally considered the same as children under a wrongful death law, the Alabama Supreme Court furthered a growing movement hoping to enshrine “fetal personhood”—the idea…
How the Christian Right Became So Hostile to IVF
17 January 2024: In the cell laboratory, culture dishes are prepared at the Fertility Center Berlin to collect the eggs after egg retrieval. Jens Kalaene/Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In a landmark ruling last week, Alabama’s Supreme Court declared that embryos created…
“It Broke My Heart”: The Brutal Effect of Alabama’s Supreme Court Ruling on IVF Patients
Mother Jones; Kim Chandler/AP; Getty; Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In Alabama, the state Supreme Court ruled this week that frozen embryos can now be considered children under state law. The all-Republican court called on anti-abortion language in the Alabama Constitution, quoted Biblical scripture…
“What Can I Even Say Without Having to Go to Jail?”
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When Heather Williams, an advocate with the Tulsa-based nonprofit Domestic Violence Intervention Services, gets a call from the local hospital, she has to drop whatever she’s doing and go. The call normally comes in when a survivor of sexual assault…
A New Study on Medication Abortion Refutes the Arguments Conservatives Are Taking to the Supreme Court
A new study refutes some of the arguments that are the basis of a forthcoming Supreme Court case seeking to restrict access to abortion pills.Alejandro Alvarez/Sipa USA/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A key argument from anti-abortion activists bringing a case to the Supreme Court is…