Please Allow Me, a Woman Who Just Had a Baby, to Fact-Check Justice Samuel J. Alito
Mother Jones; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.In his draft opinion striking down the constitutional right to an abortion, Justice Samuel Alito says a lot of things about pregnancy, women, and fetuses. As someone who has recently given birth,…
Nostalgic for the 1860s? Then You’ll Love Alito’s America.
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.For 250 years, the United States has struggled to live up to its founding promises of equality, liberty, and democracy, only slowly and haltingly expanding those freedoms beyond the white, land-owning men to whom…
Report: A Leaked Supreme Court Opinion Signals the Justices Are About to Overturn Roe v. Wade
Pro-choice activists participate in a demonstration outside of the US Supreme Court on January 22, 2022 in Washington, DC.Alex Edelman/AFP/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.For years, abortion rights advocates have been warning about the fall of Roe v. Wade, and abortion…
These Eight States Have Passed Laws Making It Nearly Impossible to Get an Abortion
Gina M. Randazzo/ZUMA Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.With Roe v. Wade at risk of being overturned by the Supreme Court, 2022 is shaping up to be a historically bad year for reproductive rights. And while anti-choice lawmakers have been working…
The Disinformation Campaign Behind a Top Pregnancy Website
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.If you happen to be a pregnant person with questions—say, about the foods you should avoid, how big your developing fetus is, or when your morning sickness might finally abate—your online research may lead you to…
The Man Behind the Texas Abortion Ban Now Has an Even More Radical Plan to Reshape American Law
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.This story was produced by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. Get their investigations emailed to you directly here. When conservative legal provocateur Jonathan Mitchell published his 2018 law review article laying the groundwork for…