More Than 260 Ohio Doctors Join the List of People Who Denounce JD Vance
Mother Jones; Stephen Maturen/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Lots of people seem to dislike the views of Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) these days: Jennifer Aniston, Congressional Republicans, and…maybe even Donald Trump? Now hundreds of medical professionals from Vance’s home state of Ohio…
J.D. Vance Supported Using the Comstock Act to Criminalize “Mail-Order Abortions”
Sen. J.D. Vance has recently claimed he believes mifepristone should be accessible—but new reporting shows that just a year ago, he was one of more than 40 Republican lawmakers who thought the opposite.Maxppp/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When former President Trump announced…
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…
How the War in Gaza Makes Life Nearly Impossible for Disabled People
Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Last December, UNICEF reported that two and a half months into Israel’s offensive in Gaza, at least a thousand children lost one or both of their legs. As more Palestinians become disabled, their risks expand.…
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…