Abortion Has Always Been a Part of America—Even if Alito Won’t Admit It
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.This article is adapted from the forthcoming book No Choice: The Past, Present, and Perilous Future of Abortion in America, published by Hachette Book Group. In Justice Alito’s leaked draft opinion that, if made official as…
The Anti-Abortion Movement’s Next Target: Birth Control
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.A few weeks ago, I attended the annual conference of the anti-abortion group Heartbeat International. Even though the Supreme Court’s draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade hadn’t yet been leaked, there was palpable excitement about…
Please Allow Me, a Woman Who Just Had a Baby, to Fact-Check Justice Samuel J. Alito
Mother Jones; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.In his draft opinion striking down the constitutional right to an abortion, Justice Samuel Alito says a lot of things about pregnancy, women, and fetuses. As someone who has recently given birth,…
Nostalgic for the 1860s? Then You’ll Love Alito’s America.
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.For 250 years, the United States has struggled to live up to its founding promises of equality, liberty, and democracy, only slowly and haltingly expanding those freedoms beyond the white, land-owning men to whom…
Report: A Leaked Supreme Court Opinion Signals the Justices Are About to Overturn Roe v. Wade
Pro-choice activists participate in a demonstration outside of the US Supreme Court on January 22, 2022 in Washington, DC.Alex Edelman/AFP/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.For years, abortion rights advocates have been warning about the fall of Roe v. Wade, and abortion…
The High-Stakes Immigration Case Before the Supreme Court Isn’t Just About Immigration
Protest against the Remain in Mexico Policy at the Supreme Court.Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA via AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Can the Biden administration end a Trump-era policy that forced thousands of asylum seekers and migrants to wait in Mexico for…