Articles tagged: Abortion

Abortion policy and legal issues

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Toss suit restricting access to abortion medication

The Trump administration on Monday asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit from three GOP-led states seeking to cut off telehealth access to abortion medication mifepristone.

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Lena Dunham Says She Saw MAGA's Rise Coming

“I was experiencing those voices in 2012,” Dunham said of the far-right’s rise. “In the way that there were so many angry, seemingly men and some women, dissecting the show in these incredibly conservative terms.”

Jezebel by Claire Guinan

How Abortion Bans Hurt Maternity Care

In places with significant abortion restrictions, many pregnant women experience delays, confusion, and other substandard care.

The Atlantic by Olga Khazan

Abortion’s Long History

Abortion has been an inescapable fact of life for millennia. The question is, why do women gain or lose control over their reproductive lives at different times in history?

The New York Review of Books by Linda Greenhouse

From the Cesspool to the Mainstream

The “new fusionist” intellectuals are the missing link between nineteenth-century race science, twentieth-century libertarianism, and the contemporary alt-right.

The New York Review of Books by Suzanne Schneider

Where Wokeness Went Wrong

Symbolic struggles cannot be a force of resistance to the Trump administration.

The New York Review of Books by Susan Neiman

Trump Wants to Make African Countries Share Abortion Data to Get AIDS Funding

An aid agreement template would require countries to share vast amounts of health data, including on abortion, to receive funds to combat HIV and other infectious diseases. The post Trump Wants to Make African Countries Share Abortion Data to Get AIDS Funding…

The Intercept by Jessica Washington

Republicans accidentally protected abortion while trying to kill Obamacare

The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that abortion must remain legal in that state, despite a 2023 law seeking to ban it. The case is known as State v. Johnson. Wyoming is America’s reddest state — President Donald Trump won Wyoming by 46 points in 2024…

Vox by Ian Millhiser

I Challenge Josh Hawley to a Duel

If he loses, he has to stop trying to ban the abortion pill. If I lose, then at least I'm spared from hearing him talk about it ever again.

Jezebel by Lauren Tousignant

Your TL;DR for This Weekend’s No Kings Protests

An estimated 8 million Americans marched in cities across the country (and around the world) to protest—well, take your pick: War? Affordability? Constant attacks on reproductive rights? Trump’s crazy goddamn ballroom?

Jezebel by Danielle Han

SCOTUS Rules Telehealth Abortions Safe, For Now

“Of course, we are relieved that the stay allows telehealth providers to continue to mail abortion pills,” Elisa Wells, co-founder of Plan C, told Jezebel. “But we remain concerned about the final outcome of this case, which bases its claims on bogus claims a…

Jezebel by Danielle Han

The Supreme Court gets thrown back into the abortion wars

On Friday evening, the far-right United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit attempted to cut off access to the abortion drug mifepristone. If you’re experiencing déjà vu, you should be, because in 2023, the far-right United States Court of Appeals for…

Vox by Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court abortion pills case, explained

Abortion pills have been on a bit of a journey in the United States over the past few weeks. It starts in Louisiana: The state sued the Food and Drug Administration late last year, seeking to eliminate access to the abortion pill mifepristone through teleheal…

Vox by Peter Balonon-Rosen, Sean Rameswaram

U.S. Supreme Court allows mifepristone by mail—for now

The nation's top court extended a stay on a lower court order banning telemedicine access to mifepristone, a drug used in medication abortions—but the order sets up a longer legal fight

Scientific American by Jackie Flynn Mogensen

Why the anti-abortion movement is disappointed in Trump

If you talk to folks in the anti-abortion movement, they’re pretty disappointed about the state of things in the US. Despite the headline victories they’ve achieved in recent years — like, say, the overturning of Roe v. Wade (1973) — they thought they’d be ac…

Vox by Peter Balonon-Rosen, Sean Rameswaram

Morning news brief

Trump returns to U.S. after trip to China, Supreme Court decides to maintain abortion pill access, U.K. prime minister faces challenges from his own party.

NPR by Michel Martin

The Future of Abortion Rights

In March the NYR Online published Amy Littlefield’s sweeping overview of the shifts in abortion access since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization effectively outlawed the procedure in more than a dozen states. Many of t…

The New York Review of Books by Amy Littlefield, Nora Caplan-Bricker

Is the Left Driving Women Away?

Shannon Watts on the increasing hostility toward women among some progressive voters. Plus: the Graham Platner news and Killing Baby Hitler by Michael Tomasky.

The Atlantic by David Frum

Todd Blanche Vows to Be the Anti-Abortion AG the GOP Wants Him to Be

“The only takeaway from this hearing is that they’ll stop at nothing to try and ban abortion nationwide—even pressuring the Trump administration to misuse Victorian-era laws to do it,” Liz Wagner at the Center for Reproductive Rights told Jezebel in a stateme…

Jezebel by Danielle Han

The Abortion Pill Has Never Abused Women. Men Do

The right is using Todd Blanche's confirmation hearing to argue that mifepristone is the problem, when it's criminal abusers who are actually at fault

Rolling Stone by Elisabeth Garber-Paul

I Don’t Know How Many More Horsemen of the Apocalypse I Can Take

The Senate Judiciary Committee officially advanced Todd Blanche’s AG nomination, dealing a big middle finger to Epstein’s survivors, the GOP buffoons that feigned concern about Trump’s big slush fund, and anyone who cares about Americans’ reproductive rights.

Jezebel by Danielle Han

Trump was Right About the Democrats' Abortion Agenda

Photo Credit: RawPixel.comBy Matt KanePresident Trump delivered the greatest victory imaginable for the pro-life movement, one it had been fighting for for nearly five decades.

Americanthinker.com

The Trump Revolution is Real

Photo Credit:Image: Gage Skidmore via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0. Gage SkidmoreBy J.B. Shurk

Americanthinker.com

Susan Collins is the abortion rights movement’s biggest test of 2026

Nationally, abortion has faded as a campaign issue. Four years after it helped Democrats stave off a red wave, candidates in battleground races are focusing their attention on cost-of-living issues, immigration, and policing. As of mid-August, abortion was me…

Vox by Rachel Cohen

Heidi Overton Is As Shifty as a Window

“Trump’s decision to put anti-abortion extremists like Heidi Overton and Nicole Saphier in powerful positions at HHS is no accident,” Mini Timmaraju at Reproductive Freedom for All told Jezebel.

Jezebel by Danielle Han

Susan Collins is back on the ballot for the first time since Roe was overturned

GORHAM, Maine (AP) — For years, Planned Parenthood’s endorsement of Susan Collins was enough to persuade Erin Evans to vote for Maine's longtime U.S. senator, believing that the moderate Republican would protect abortion access. Evans is now “just furious wi…

Yahoo Entertainment by KIMBERLEE KRUESI and PATRICK WHITTLE