Criminalizing Pregnancy: A Record Number of Women Were Prosecuted the Year After Dobbs
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. One night in March of 2023, Amari Marsh went to the bathroom and suffered a miscarriage. “I screamed because I was scared, because I didn’t know what was going on,” she recently recalled. An…
Two Dead Women Aren’t Enough for Republicans to Back Lifesaving Abortions
Senate Republicans blocked a resolution to guarantee emergency access to abortion nationwide.John Locher/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Two women who died in Georgia as a result of the state’s post-Dobbs abortion ban are, apparently, not enough to make Republicans agree that all…
Florida’s Maternity Homes Made Single Mothers Feel Like “Criminals”
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In the years before the Supreme Court ended the federal right to abortion, Florida’s 55 reproductive health care clinics were a critical part of the national abortion infrastructure, caring for tens of thousands of…
That Guy Who Overturned Roe Promises to Make Women Great Again
Trump campaigned in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Saturday, telling a rally that women will “no longer be thinking about abortion” if he’s elected in November. “I will protect women at a level never seen before,” he said.Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.…
Harris Blames Georgia Mother’s Death on “Trump Abortion Bans”
Vice President Kamala Harris interviewed by members of the National Association of Black Journalists on Tuesday.Jacquelyn Martin/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Vice President Kamala Harris has lost no time blaming former President Donald Trump for the death of a single mother in…
A Georgia Woman Has Died After an Abortion Ban Delayed Lifesaving Care
peakSTOCK/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Reproductive justice advocates have been warning for more than two years that the end of Roe v. Wade would lead to surge in maternal mortality among patients denied abortion care—and that the increase was likely to be…