A Nurse Called Police After a Black Woman Miscarried—There’s a History to That
Brittany Watts celebrated with supporters earlier this month after a grand jury declined to indict her on a felony charge for how she handled an at-home miscarriage. Sue Ogrocki/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last week, Brittany Watts, a 34-year-old Black medical receptionist from…
Anti-Abortion Wisconsin Republicans Have Some Thoughts About Women
Rep. Ron Tusler cited a few biblical figures who he alleged were rightly forced to carry pregnancies despite their advanced—or young—ages.Screenshot/WiseEye.org Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Anti-abortion Wisconsin Republicans say the darndest things. While debating a bill in the state legislature that would allow…
Greg Abbott Said He’d “Eliminate Rape” to Justify an Abortion Ban. He’s Failed Horribly.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pledged to “eliminate rape” after signing a six-week abortion ban in 2021. New research shows he has failed spectacularly.Adam Davis/EFE via ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After passing what was, at the time, the strictest abortion ban in the…
Kansans Voted to Protect Abortion Rights. Republicans Are Still Trying to Ban Them.
A yard sign urges Kansas voters to protect abortion access in the November elections.John Hanna/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In August 2022, Kansans decisively voted to protect reproductive rights, rejecting a proposed constitutional amendment from pro-life groups that said there was no right…
SCOTUS Allows One of America’s Strictest Abortion Bans to Take Effect—For Now
Graeme Sloan/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Idaho has among the strictest abortion bans in the country. It’s so strict, in fact, that in 2022, the Biden administration sued the state, arguing that it violates a federal law regulating medical emergencies. The legal battle…
Americans Are Stockpiling Abortion Pills…Just in Case
Abortion rights activists rallied outside the Supreme Court last April—when requests for advance provision of abortion pills spiked in light of conflicting rulings over its approval by the FDA.Probal Rashid/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.More Americans are stockpiling abortion pills in case they…