“Beyond My Pay Grade”: When Pete Buttigieg Had a Chance to Stand Firm on Abortion Rights, He Dodged
Mother Jones illustration; Getty; Zuma Mayor Pete Buttigieg was keeping a low profile. It was last spring, and he was in the middle of deliberating what he would later call “one of the hardest decisions” he’s had to make during his tenure in South Bend, Indiana. An abortion clinic—which was hoping to offer service to…
Missouri’s Last Abortion Clinic Is About to Potentially Close. Its Doctor Explains How They Are Coping.
Abortion-rights supporters march Thursday, May 30, 2019, in St. Louis. A St. Louis judge is deciding whether to grant an order that would allow Missouri’s only abortion clinic to keep its license to perform abortions past Friday.Jeff Roberson/AP Photo The fate of Missouri’s last abortion clinic hangs in the balance as a circuit court judge considers the…
Alabama Banned Abortions. Then Its Lawmakers Remembered Rapists Can Get Parental Rights.
Stock photoRyanKing999/iStock/Getty A few months after Jessica Stallings’ 13th birthday, her uncle raped her for the first time. He was 20 years old, and he lived with Stallings and her mother in their Alabama home. He kept raping her, she claimed in court documents, and by the time she was 19, she had three children…
Iowa’s Supreme Court Protected Gay Marriage and Abortion Rights—and Republican Lawmakers Are Out for Payback
DNY59/Getty Conservative Iowa lawmakers are advancing a bill that would change the long-standing way judges are selected in the state. Critics of the legislation, introduced in early February, say it is motivated by displeasure over state courts blocking abortion and same-sex marriage bans. “It’s just an extreme political power grab by legislators who are unhappy…
The Georgia House Passed a Bill to Ban Abortions After Six Weeks. Black Female Democrats Had the Best Clapback.
Rep. Park Cannon, left, Rep. Pam Stephenson, and others brought coat hangers to show opposition to HB 481, which would toughen restrictions on abortions. Bob Andres/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In Georgia last week, a white Republican man in the House of Representatives introduced a bill…
The Absurd Case of an Alabama Man Who Thinks He Has the Right to Be a Father
People supporting and opposing abortion demonstrate outside of the Alabama Women’s Center for Reproductive Alternatives in Huntsville, Ala., Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013, during a “40 Days of Life Prayer Vigil.” Sarah Cole/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In August 2017, I visited the Alabama Women’s Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and…