Forced Parenthood and Failing Safety Nets: This Is Life in Post-Roe America
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Melissa Kearse, a 38-year-old single mother of five, has never had an abortion. She never wanted one. “I come from a very religious background,” she explains, “where my-body-my-choice is not necessarily my body and my choice.” But in her…
A Texas Judge Ruled Against the Biden Administration’s Emergency Abortion Guidance
Without the protection of federal guidance, even severe medical emergencies may not qualify patients for abortion ban exceptions.Eric Gay/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In May, you would have had to prove you were fewer than six weeks pregnant to get an abortion in…
Inside a Kansas Clinic Where the Battle Over Abortion Is Still Raging
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.By midmorning on an early October day in 2021, the parking lot is full at the Trust Women clinic in Wichita, Kansas. Cars have been pulling in steadily for hours under a slate sky, droplets from the unpredictable autumn…
Kansas Voters Reject Bid to End Abortion Rights
Calley Malloy, Cassie Woolworth and Dawn Rattan applaud during a primary watch party Tuesday, in Overland Park, Kansas. Kansas voters rejected a ballot measure that would have allowed the Republican-controlled Legislature to tighten restrictions or ban abortion outright.Tammy Ljungblad/The Kansas City Star/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow…
“Alito Was Using Phrases We Had Invented as Bumper-Sticker Slogans in a Supreme Court Decision”
Mother Jones illustration; Lauren Victoria Burke/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.This interview is a collaboration between Mother Jones and Interfaith Alliance, a national organization that champions an inclusive vision of religious freedom to protect people of all faiths and none. Religious freedom…
Inside the Powerful Anti-Abortion Campaign to Convince You That Everything Is Just Fine
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Late last month, shortly after the US Supreme Court stripped away federal protection for abortion rights, Dr. Christina Francis, an OB/GYN based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, took to Instagram with an urgent message: She wanted her…