“Roe Is on the Ballot,” Biden Says
President Joe Biden addresses the nation Friday after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Andrew Harnik/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On Friday Morning, the Supreme Court dropped the bomb we all knew was coming, voting 5-4 to overturn the…
Mike Pence Calls for Abortion Bans Across the Country
Robin Rayne/Zuma Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Former Vice President Mike Pence, who appears to be laying the groundwork for a presidential run, called on Friday for “every state in the land” to enact an abortion ban. Pence, who has called…
Roe v. Wade Was Killed by Minority Rule
Protesters hold cardboard cutouts of the Supreme Court Justices that support overturning Roe v. Wade. Gina M Randazzo/Zuma Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Some Supreme Court opinions are hard to unpack. Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion striking down Roe v. Wade,…
I Helped Women in Texas Get Abortions Before Roe. I Can’t Believe I’m Still Having to Do the Same Scary Work.
Mother Jones illustration; Noah Blaine Clark/Unsplash; Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty, Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Prior to Roe v. Wade, the seminal 1973 US Supreme Court ruling that guaranteed abortion care as a constitutional right, Kitty S. served as an…
“From the Very Moment of Fertilization, a Woman Has No Rights to Speak Of”
Mother Jones illustration; Erin Schaff/The New York Times/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On Friday, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, wiping out the constitutional right to abortion that had been in place for nearly 50 years. The ruling, which…
Justice Clarence Thomas Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud
Mother Jones illustration; Erin Schaff/The New York Times/AP, Jacquelyn Martin/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On Friday morning, the Supreme Court issued its opinion overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey—the two decades-old Supreme Court cases that together guaranteed…