Judith Arcana Helped Facilitate Abortions Pre-Roe—Here’s What She Learned
Where Do We Go From Here? is a series of stories that explore the future of abortion. It is a collaboration between Mother Jones and Rewire News Group. You can read the rest of the package here. May 3, 1972. It was a spring day in Chicago and 29-year-old Judith Arcana was behind the wheel.…
To Save Democracy, Let’s Reform the Courts
Where Do We Go From Here? is a series of stories that explore the future of abortion. It is a collaboration between Mother Jones and Rewire News Group. You can read the rest of the package here. After a horrifying court term that saw reproductive health rights obliterated at the same time we got guns gone wild, there’s no reason to…
A Week in Alabama After Abortion Was Banned
Where Do We Go From Here? is a series of stories that explore the future of abortion. It is a collaboration between Mother Jones and Rewire News Group. You can read the rest of the package here. The team at Alabama Women’s Center in Huntsville was only an hour into a morning full of appointments when Dr. Sanithia Williams got the…
Why Progressive Prosecutors Won’t Save Us in a Post-Roe World
Where Do We Go From Here? is a series of stories that explore the future of abortion. It is a collaboration between Mother Jones and Rewire News Group. You can read the rest of the package here. The same year Harriet Tubman escaped enslavement on a Maryland plantation and Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman…
Biden Signs Executive Order Aimed at Protecting Abortion Rights
President Joe Biden signs an executive order on abortion access on July 8. From left, Vice President Kamala Harris, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco look on.Evan Vucci/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.President…
Inside an Illinois Abortion Clinic Bracing for Impact
Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Hanz Dismer doesn’t have many moments to catch their breath at work these days. The education research coordinator at Hope Clinic for Women, an abortion clinic in Granite City, Illinois, Dismer is constantly bustling…