Project 2025 Is Twisting Disability Rights Law to Attack Abortion
Gina M Randazzo/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s guidebook for Republican control of the presidency and Congress, is, unsurprisingly, coming for abortion rights. But in a new twist, they want to use a key disability rights law to…
Why Smashing the Administrative State Is a Disaster for Reproductive Rights
An abortion rights advocate participates in a protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court Building on June 24, 2024, in Washington, DC.Anna Moneymaker/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. It turns out the most consequential reproductive rights case before the Supreme Court this past…
The GOP’s “Softened” Abortion Platform Is A Ruse
Former President Trump has said he’d leave abortion rights “to the states” if re-elected—but the new draft Republican Party platform says the quiet part out loud. Gerald Herbert/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. If you read coverage of the Republican Party platform in…
Abortion Bans Are Also Terrible for Babies
Mother Jones; Getty; Clark Van Der Beken/Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In many ways, the end of Roe v Wade didn’t happen when the US Supreme Court issued its decision to overrule Roe in the Dobbs case in June 2022. Rather, it…
Trump’s Lies About Abortion in America Were Particularly Appalling
President Trump spewed anti-abortion lies and talking points at Thursday night’s debate. Let’s review the facts.Mother Jones illustration; Gerald Herbert/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Former President Donald Trump did manage to say one accurate thing about abortion at Thursday night’s CNN presidential…
The First National Data on Birth Control Post-Dobbs Is Here, and the News Is Not Good
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s June 2022 Dobbs decision, as dozens of abortion clinics shut down in states with total or near-total abortion bans, reproductive justice advocates warned that the closures wouldn’t…