Hero of 2022: Abortion Providers Who Refused to Quit
Mother Jones; Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times/Getty Abortion is healthcare, and no law prohibiting it can eradicate its necessity. That hasn’t stopped Republican legislators from trying. Fifty-five abortion restrictions were enacted in 2022. Many of these laws target doctors and healthcare workers, threatening them with fines and jail time for providing necessary and wanted care. But…
Before Roe, a Baptist Preacher Performed Abortions in Secret. Now He’s Helping Texans.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The first thing Dr. Curtis Boyd did when he arrived at work one cloudy Monday morning in January was turn on his radio. It was 1973, and Boyd, an ordained Baptist minister, had been providing underground abortions for five…
America, It’s Time to Free the Pill
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.If you’re one of the estimated 10 million people in the United States taking oral contraception, you probably needed a prescription to get it. But that could soon change: In July, a Paris-based company, HRA Pharma, announced it asked…
Abortion Rights Are a Winning Strategy
Mother Jones illustration; Gina M Randazzo/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In state after state on Election Day, voters sent a resounding message: “Abortion rights matter to us.” They didn’t only matter in California and Vermont, where voters chose to guarantee abortion rights in their…
The Future of Abortion Is Up for Grabs in These States on Tuesday
Erin Lefevre/NurPhoto/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. States have the power to establish rights for their residents that surpass those guaranteed in the Constitution. California’s Proposition 1 and Vermont’s Proposal 5 would explicitly add abortion rights to their state constitutions—an additional safeguard where abortion access…
The Path to Restoring Abortion Access in Wisconsin Hinges on the November Midterms
Demonstrators protest outside the state Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin in response to the leaked Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.Amber Arnold/Wisconsin State Journal/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For three and a half years, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ veto pen was the only…