Biden Signs Executive Order Aimed at Protecting Abortion Rights
President Joe Biden signs an executive order on abortion access on July 8. From left, Vice President Kamala Harris, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco look on.Evan Vucci/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.President…
I’m an Abortion Provider in Texas and I’m Now Forced to Consider: Is This “Life-Threatening Enough”?
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.As the federal right to abortion—and, by extension, the right to practice that aspect of gynecological care—has been destroyed, abortion providers in hostile states are reckoning with the very real possibility that their jobs may soon…
Oklahoma Providers Have Already Been Living in a Post-Roe World. Here’s What We Can Learn From Them.
The Trust Women clinic in Oklahoma City. Sue Ogrocki/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Roe is dead. In the coming weeks, abortion will be banned in 13 states with trigger laws, and 13 more are likely to severely restrict or end…
I Helped Women in Texas Get Abortions Before Roe. I Can’t Believe I’m Still Having to Do the Same Scary Work.
Mother Jones illustration; Noah Blaine Clark/Unsplash; Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty, Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Prior to Roe v. Wade, the seminal 1973 US Supreme Court ruling that guaranteed abortion care as a constitutional right, Kitty S. served as an…
SCOTUS Finally Made it Official: Roe Is Dead
Mother Jones illustration; Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Well, folks, the decision is here. As expected, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 in favor of bypassing the precedents established in the 1973…
Title IX Built Women’s Sports. Now, It’s Time for it to Change.
Alex Milan Tracy/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.The law that transformed sports for women and girls is turning 50. On June 23, 1972, President Richard Nixon signed into law Title IX, prohibiting sex-based discrimination in schools, as part of sweeping…