Kansans Voted to Protect Abortion Rights. Republicans Are Still Trying to Ban Them.
A yard sign urges Kansas voters to protect abortion access in the November elections.John Hanna/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In August 2022, Kansans decisively voted to protect reproductive rights, rejecting a proposed constitutional amendment from pro-life groups that said there was no right…
SCOTUS Allows One of America’s Strictest Abortion Bans to Take Effect—For Now
Graeme Sloan/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Idaho has among the strictest abortion bans in the country. It’s so strict, in fact, that in 2022, the Biden administration sued the state, arguing that it violates a federal law regulating medical emergencies. The legal battle…
Americans Are Stockpiling Abortion Pills…Just in Case
Abortion rights activists rallied outside the Supreme Court last April—when requests for advance provision of abortion pills spiked in light of conflicting rulings over its approval by the FDA.Probal Rashid/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.More Americans are stockpiling abortion pills in case they…
Supreme Court to Take on the Biggest Abortion Case Since Dobbs
Gina M Randazzo/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that it will hear a case deciding the fate of mifepristone, a pill used in medication abortion, marking the most consequential reproductive rights case to reach the high court since…
The Texas Supreme Court Rules Against Kate Cox Hours After She Announced She Fled the State To Seek an Abortion
Eric Gay/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Update, December 11, 2o23 at 7:55 p.m.: The Texas Supreme Court overturned the lower court order on Monday, ruling against Kate Cox, her husband, and the medical team, hours after Cox announced she fled the state for…
Mexico Has Become a Haven for Americans Seeking an Abortion
Mother Jones illustration; YangYin/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.One last-minute round-trip flight from Biloxi, Mississippi, to Cancún, Mexico, runs about $171 USD; three nights at a three-star hotel there can cost as little as $129. A three-day car rental in the resort town…