Trump Is Coming After California’s Abortion Protections
People rally in support of abortion rights at the California state Capitol.Rich Pedroncelli/AP While Trump addressed crowds of people on the National Mall at the annual anti-abortion March for Life Rally on Friday—a major symbolic gesture—his administration announced a far more tangible attack on abortion rights in America. The Department of Health and Human Services…
Republicans Are Trying, Once Again, to Basically Ban Abortion in Tennessee
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, center, and fellow Republicans in the state General Assembly hold a news conference at the Tennessee Capitol on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn., to discuss a new anti-abortion proposal. Jonathan Mattise/AP This morning, Republican Gov. Bill Lee called a press conference to announce that Tennessee would be doubling down…
The Women’s March Has Gotten Much Smaller. That’s Partly by Design.
An estimated 100,000 people attended the Women’s March in Washington, DC, on January 19th, 2019.Jose Luis Magana/AP Three years ago, nearly half a million women and their allies descended on the nation’s capital to showcase their outrage over the election of Donald Trump and launch a new movement for women’s equality. On Saturday, fewer than…
2019 Was a Banner Year for Abortion Laws—and Not the Kind You Think
People both supporting and opposing abortion protest at the Rhode Island statehouse on March 5.Jennifer McDermott/AP This year will be remembered for an unprecedented red-state assault on reproductive rights. From a wave of early-term abortion bans in the South and Midwest to a host of policies aimed at preventing providers from having open conversations with patients…
A New Federal Judge Appointed by Trump Has Fought Against Abortion, Fertility Treatments, and Surrogacy
Tom Williams/CQPHO/AP Senate Republicans voted Wednesday to confirm Sarah Pitlyk, who has argued against in vitro fertilization and surrogacy and touted the (debunked) “eugenic origins of the birth control movement,” to a lifetime judgeship on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. On Tuesday, Sen. Susan Collins was the only Republican to vote…
The Trump Administration Is Giving Family Planning Funds to a Network of Anti-Abortion Clinics
When I walked into the Obria clinic in Whittier, California, one evening in July, a woman in a modest floral-print dress organizing bundles of diapers in a back room greeted me hopefully. She thought I’d come for a class. Instead, I asked if I had come to the right place for birth control. Furrowing her…