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The Latest Casualties of Idaho’s Abortion Ban: Babies

Matt York, File/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.An Idaho hospital is ending its labor and delivery services in the wake of a Texas-style, near-total abortion ban signed into state law last year. Citing the state’s “legal and political climate,” Bonner General Health plans to…

Meet the Religious Crusaders Fighting for Abortion Rights

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Torah tells its followers to “be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth,” so that’s what Lisa Sobel, a devout Jewish woman from Louisville, Kentucky, set out to do. It wasn’t easy. First, she endured three years of…

The Abortion Pill’s Secret Money Men

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In 1993, a group of activists rented a warehouse in suburban Westchester County, New York. It was smaller than they’d hoped and had limited ventilation, but the two other locations they’d tried to rent belonged to universities and required…

“When We Fight, We Win”: Kamala Harris Strikes Hopeful Note on 50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade

Abortion rights protesters in Orlando in JuneStephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel/TNS/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Vice President Kamala Harris marked the 50th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case by lamenting that the Supreme Court had overturned the constitutional right to an abortion and…