The GOP Is Too Scared to Let South Dakota Vote on Abortion
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference.Francis Chung/Politico/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade nearly two years ago, supporters of the right to choose have won every ballot initiative, in every state,…
Let’s Not Take Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills for Granted
Bettmann/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last July, in a win for reproductive justice advocates, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill. This week, the progestin-only pill, Opill, shipped to retailers like CVS and Walgreens. It’s expected to be…
How Todd Akin’s “Legitimate Rape” Debacle Previewed the Abortion Agenda of Today’s GOP
Mother Jones; Charlie Riedel/AP; Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A few months before the 2012 elections, Todd Akin, the Republicans’ Senate candidate in Missouri, sent his party scrambling when he explained his opposition to abortion even in cases of rape with a now…
Telehealth Abortions Continue to Rise—Even in Banned States, A New Study Shows
A new study shows that telehealth provision of abortion pills continues to rise, even as anti-abortion lawmakers try to ban them. Olga Fedorova/SOPA/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Telehealth abortions continue to grow in popularity, even in states where anti-abortion activists try to ban…
What Happens If We Actually Treat Fetuses Like People?
San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In ruling that frozen embryos should be legally considered the same as children under a wrongful death law, the Alabama Supreme Court furthered a growing movement hoping to enshrine “fetal personhood”—the idea…
How the Christian Right Became So Hostile to IVF
17 January 2024: In the cell laboratory, culture dishes are prepared at the Fertility Center Berlin to collect the eggs after egg retrieval. Jens Kalaene/Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In a landmark ruling last week, Alabama’s Supreme Court declared that embryos created…