The GOP’s Interest in Mental Health Care Is a Familiar Deflection After a Mass Shooting
Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y. Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.One week after the mass shooting tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), the House Republican Conference chair, reiterated her opposition to…
Why Do Social Media Platforms Keep Removing Posts About Safe and Legal Abortion Pills?
Oliver Douliery/AFP/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Not all the 39 patients who asked Christie Pitney for abortion pills last week were pregnant. Some had IUDs or were on birth control, and they wanted to have the pills—an extremely safe, FDA-approved…
Biden Must Start Getting Creative to Protect Abortion Rights
Allison Bailey/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.There will be no deus ex machina from the federal government when the Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade, as it is now virtually guaranteed to do since Justice Samuel…
I’m a Nurse at a Stanford Hospital. I’m Burned Out, Fed Up, And Ready to Strike.
Christiane Lois Dating/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.After a brutal two years on the front lines of the pandemic, nurses at Stanford’s hospitals are on the verge of a strike. As my colleague Emily Hofstaedter reported last week, the nurses’…
These Eight States Have Passed Laws Making It Nearly Impossible to Get an Abortion
Gina M. Randazzo/ZUMA Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.With Roe v. Wade at risk of being overturned by the Supreme Court, 2022 is shaping up to be a historically bad year for reproductive rights. And while anti-choice lawmakers have been working…
Stanford Threatens to Cut Health Care for Nurses Who Go on Strike
Over 8,000 registered nurses and health care workers with Sutter Health participated in a one-day strike on April 18th.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Nurses at Stanford Health Care and Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital are ready to exchange thermometers…