“We Will Continue to March Until Abortion Is Unthinkable.”
Anti-abortion supporters gather on the National Mall in Washington, DC ahead of the March for Life on January 20th, 2023.Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Friday, for the 50th year in a row, tens of thousands of anti-abortion…
Hero of 2022: The Woman Who Defeated Two Anti-Abortion Ballot Measures
Mother Jones; John Hanna/AP When I asked Rachel Sweet, a political operative from flyover country, what motivated her to pursue a career of fighting for reproductive rights, she couldn’t pinpoint a specific moment or life experience. She grew up in a politically engaged family that often talked about liberal values. She interned at Planned Parenthood…
Hero of 2022: Abortion Providers Who Refused to Quit
Mother Jones; Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times/Getty Abortion is healthcare, and no law prohibiting it can eradicate its necessity. That hasn’t stopped Republican legislators from trying. Fifty-five abortion restrictions were enacted in 2022. Many of these laws target doctors and healthcare workers, threatening them with fines and jail time for providing necessary and wanted care. But…
Before Roe, a Baptist Preacher Performed Abortions in Secret. Now He’s Helping Texans.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The first thing Dr. Curtis Boyd did when he arrived at work one cloudy Monday morning in January was turn on his radio. It was 1973, and Boyd, an ordained Baptist minister, had been providing underground abortions for five…
Was the Anti-Abortion Influence Campaign an Open Secret at the Supreme Court?
Eric Lee/CNP/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Thursday, the Reverend Robert Schenck testified before Congress about the anti-abortion influence campaign he ran targeting the Supreme Court, recounting the bombshell revelations that have clouded the highest court in scandal first reported in November by the…
Doctors Should Break the Law to Offer Abortions Sometimes, Says New Guidance From Medical Leaders
Arvin Temkar/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The people who write laws banning abortion are usually not doctors. As a result, medical providers in states that have restricted abortion access after the fall of Roe v. Wade have been left in the…