Today’s Supreme Court Ruling on Abortion Is Good. It’s Not Great.
Center For Reproductive Rights holds a rally outside the Supreme Court Gina M Randazzo/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The Supreme Court decision today to protect abortion rights is undoubtedly a win for reproductive rights advocates. But by no means should it be a signal for them to…
Climate Change Poses Serious Risks for Pregnancy
A 7 month pregnant environmental activist protests.Ollie Millington/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece was originally published in the Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. More than a decade of overwhelming evidence links air pollution and heat exposure with negative pregnancy outcomes…
The Supreme Court’s Landmark LGBTQ Civil Rights Ruling Will Extend Far Beyond Employment Law
The Supreme Court’s decision to protect gay and transgender Americans from employment discrimination comes in the midst of the Trump Administration’s attack on the LGBTQ community.Kevin Wolf/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Monday, the Supreme Court handed LGBTQ Americans one of their biggest civil rights victories…
The Supreme Court Ruling Is a Milestone for LGBTQ Rights, But It Doesn’t Affect Trans Service Members
Dozens of protesters gather in Times Square near a military recruitment center to show their anger at President Donald Trump’s decision to reinstate a ban on transgender individuals from serving in the military.Spencer Platt/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The Supreme Court on Monday delivered a landmark…
The Police Killing You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week
A Black trans person was killed in a police encounter in Florida, the “epicenter of anti-transgender violence.”Sipa USA via AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Wednesday evening, while Minneapolis burned, several dozen mourners held a candlelight vigil in Tallahassee, Florida for Tony McDade. McDade, a Black…
“AKA Jane Roe” Shows How the Abortion Fight Steamrolled the Real Norma McCorvey
Norma McCorvey in “AKA Jane Roe”FX For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Toward the end of the new documentary AKA Jane Roe, when Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade fame) makes a self-described “deathbed confession” that she never truly converted to Christianity—she was in it for the…