How Abortion Foes Are Using Transphobia to Derail New York’s Equal Rights Amendment
Mother Jones illustration; Jose Luis Magana/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In late August, on the fringes of a press conference outside New York City Hall, a man wearing a “Kill your local pedophile” T-shirt and a “Babies Lives Matter” pin screamed at…
Big Tech Would Be Key to Delivering Project 2025’s Anti-Abortion Plans
Mother Jones illustration Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. If Project 2025 becomes a reality under a second Trump term, there are several ways it plans to further restrict and surveil abortion access nationwide, including criminalizing the mailing of abortion pills and forcing states…
Two Dead Women Aren’t Enough for Republicans to Back Lifesaving Abortions
Senate Republicans blocked a resolution to guarantee emergency access to abortion nationwide.John Locher/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Two women who died in Georgia as a result of the state’s post-Dobbs abortion ban are, apparently, not enough to make Republicans agree that all…
JD Vance Thinks He Can Sell His Nativism With Cat Memes
Mother Jones; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. At the center of the two biggest controversies of JD Vance’s short political career have been cats. The first came from his attacks against the “childless cat ladies” on the left. More recently, the…
Kamala Harris Bet on Barack Obama. Now He’s Returning the Favor.
Kamala Harris and Barack Obama in 2012Paul Chinn/San Francisco Chronicle/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When Barack Obama takes the stage in Chicago tonight to support the candidacy of his old friend Kamala Harris, many Americans will see it as another torch-passing moment…
Here’s the Latest Example of How Conservatives Have Gamed State Supreme Courts to Restrict Abortion
Abortion-rights protesters wave signs and cheer at a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, in 2022.Charlie Neibergall/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When the Iowa Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that abortion was a fundamental right to be protected under the most stringent level…