NYMag’s Trump Allegation Is a Clear Description of First-Degree Rape. Prosecution May Be Impossible.
Jim LoScalzo/AP On Friday morning, New York magazine published an explosive story from writer and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll alleging that President Donald Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s. The White House denied the story in a statement, calling Carroll’s allegations “a completely false and unrealistic story surfacing 25 years…
More People Than Ever Say They Support Trans Rights. But Do They Support the Policies?
LGBTQ activists and supporters rally in support of transgender people at New York City Hall in late 2018.Drew Angerer / Getty Images A survey by the Public Religion Research Institute made headlines last week with its finding that 62 percent of Americans say they have become more supportive of transgender rights in the last five years. Media…
Ayanna Pressley Wants to Ditch an Old Anti-Abortion Law. House Democrats Aren’t Listening.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley speaks to demonstrators outside of the Supreme Court on May 21, 2019.Stefani Reynolds/AP Images The Democratic majority in the US House appears likely to pass a spending bill which will include the Hyde Amendment, a measure that blocks federal funds from being spent on abortions, despite clear opposition from the the party’s base and…
“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…