Want to See How Fast the Politics of Abortion Are Changing? Pay Attention to Arizona.
A ballot measure supporter attends a rally at the Arizona State Capitol in June.Rebecca Noble/The Washington Post/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On a quiet Saturday morning in June, a few days before their deadline to collect signatures for a referendum to enshrine…
Big Tech Would Be Key to Delivering Project 2025’s Anti-Abortion Plans
Mother Jones illustration Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. If Project 2025 becomes a reality under a second Trump term, there are several ways it plans to further restrict and surveil abortion access nationwide, including criminalizing the mailing of abortion pills and forcing states…
Criminalizing Pregnancy: A Record Number of Women Were Prosecuted the Year After Dobbs
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. One night in March of 2023, Amari Marsh went to the bathroom and suffered a miscarriage. “I screamed because I was scared, because I didn’t know what was going on,” she recently recalled. An…
Two Dead Women Aren’t Enough for Republicans to Back Lifesaving Abortions
Senate Republicans blocked a resolution to guarantee emergency access to abortion nationwide.John Locher/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Two women who died in Georgia as a result of the state’s post-Dobbs abortion ban are, apparently, not enough to make Republicans agree that all…
Florida’s Maternity Homes Made Single Mothers Feel Like “Criminals”
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In the years before the Supreme Court ended the federal right to abortion, Florida’s 55 reproductive health care clinics were a critical part of the national abortion infrastructure, caring for tens of thousands of…
That Guy Who Overturned Roe Promises to Make Women Great Again
Trump campaigned in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Saturday, telling a rally that women will “no longer be thinking about abortion” if he’s elected in November. “I will protect women at a level never seen before,” he said.Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.…