Two Decades Ago, He Blocked Abortion Clinics and Dodged Police. Now He’s Helping Wage Trump’s War on Reproductive Rights.
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One November afternoon in 1998, about 20 anti-abortion protestors gathered outside a minister’s home on a quiet, tree-lined street in a Madison, Wisconsin suburb. Among them was 23-year-old Matt Bowman, a recent college graduate who had come to town the year before…
She Started Selling Abortion Pills Online. Then the Feds Showed Up.
Alvaro Dominguez Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For two years, before she headed off to her full-time job as a web developer, or after she put her daughter to bed at night, Ursula Wing ran a business selling abortion pills from the bedroom of her New York City apartment. The…
Two Years Ago, the Trump Administration Limited Abortion Access Worldwide. These Powerful Images Reveal the Impact.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When we met M, still dressed in her fast-food uniform tightly fitted around her pregnant belly, she looked lost. She shyly approached us in Gandhi Square, a main thoroughfare in Johannesburg, South Africa, and asked if we knew the location of a “women’s clinic.” My…
It Took Nearly 50 Years, But New York Finally Just Decriminalized Abortion
A demonstrator holds up a banner saying “Keep Abortion Legal” in front of Trump International Hotel in New York City, on January 20, 2018. Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For decades, pro-choice activists have pushed to reform abortion access in one of the country’s…
Tens of Thousands Take to the Streets for the Third Women’s March
Protesters march on Capitol Hill during the third Women’s March.Jose Luis Magana/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tens of thousands of protesters across the globe are gathering for the third Women’s March today. Amid controversy surrounding the event’s organizers, turnout numbers are not expected to match the record-breaking stats from the…
Even Anti-Abortion Gov. Kasich Couldn’t Sign This Extreme Abortion Measure
Protesters march to the Ohio State House in Columbus, Ohio, earlier this month to protest the controversial “fetal heartbeat ban,” which would have prohibited abortion as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.Matthew Hatcher/SOPA Images/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Despite efforts of conservative lawmakers and activists, the Ohio…