Supreme Court Looks Set to Avoid Deciding Whether Women Can Get Emergency Abortions
Sarah A. Miller/TNS via ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The Supreme Court is poised to issue a decision punting on one of the term’s most closely watched abortion cases. The decision will leave for another day—one not just months before a presidential…
Overturning Roe Didn’t Just Cut Off Access. It Sabotaged Science, Too.
Álvaro Bernis Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In early May 2022, reproductive health researcher Liz Mosley was at a dinner celebrating her first day as an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine when the news broke: A leaked draft…
Trad Wives Are Thriving in the Post-Dobbs Era
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Last year, despite minding other people’s business online, I didn’t know what a “trad wife” was. Now it seems like every time I log in to Instagram or TikTok, there is another video of a beautiful woman cleaning…
“The Dire Threat of Trump’s Ongoing Assault on Women’s Fundamental Freedoms”
Harris will host a “reproductive freedom event” in Phoenix to mark the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s overruling of Roe v. Wade. Kyle Mazza/NurPhoto/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On the eve of the two-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision that overruled…
Democrats Are Trying to Repeal a Zombie Law That Could Ban Abortion Nationwide
Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.), center, is going after the 19th-century Comstock Act before Republicans may try to use it to ban abortion nationwide.Mother Jones; Samuel Corum/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. You may think medication abortion is safe from anti-abortion crusaders’ wrath after…
The Supreme Court Just Unanimously Struck Down a Challenge to the Abortion Pill
Mother Jones; Olga Fedorova/SOPA/ZUMA; Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/ZUMA; Justin Rex/AP; Tim Mossholder/Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When far-right activists won their decades-long crusade to overturn Roe v. Wade, they likely expected that eradicating the constitutional right to an abortion would result in the…