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June 24, 2022
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court’s Liberal Justices Rip Their “Aggressive” Conservative Colleagues
In their scathing dissent, the court’s minority write that their fellow justices have abandoned any claim to legitimacy.
June 24, 2022
Melissa Gira Grant
The Fight for Abortion Rights Must Break the Law to Win
Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, we can’t rely on legal means to restore the right to reproductive freedom.
June 24, 2022
Matt Ford
Clarence Thomas Will Wipe Out Marriage Equality and Contraception Next
The right-wing justice has invited conservatives to challenge these long-established rights in court.
June 24, 2022
Michael Tomasky
How Do You Feel Now, Susan Collins?
She allegedly voted for Brett Kavanaugh because he convinced her that he wouldn’t overturn Roe v. Wade. That makes her either a liar or the most gullible person in the Senate.
June 6, 2022
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court’s June of Doom Is Upon Us
The United States of America will be a vastly different country by the end of the month.
May 23, 2022
Matt Ford
Abolishing Birth Control and Gay Marriage Is on the Table
With the Supreme Court poised to overturn Roe, and conservatives plotting a sexual counterrevolution, there’s no telling what rights might get abolished next.
May 18, 2022
Abdul El-Sayed
Michigan Is Becoming the Ground Zero of Abortion Battles
Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel may be the most important bulwark protecting Michiganders should Roe fall.
May 16, 2022
Alex Thomas
Donald Trump’s Gaffe About
Roe
Has Become America’s Worrisome Future
The anti-abortion movement once recoiled at the former president’s assertion that women should be punished for having abortions. It’s since started to embrace his way of thinking.
May 11, 2022
Matt Ford
What Samuel Alito Gets Wrong About English Common Law
A tour through the justice’s draft decision overturning Roe suggests he either doesn’t know—or doesn’t care—about centuries of progress.
May 10, 2022
Magazine
Madeleine Schwartz
You Go to the Labor Ward, and You Are Treated Like Meat
A Polish reproductive rights lawyer recounts the extraordinary obstacles women in Poland have faced since the country prohibited nearly all abortions.
May 10, 2022
Katherine Stewart
How Christian Nationalism Perverted the Judicial System and Gutted Our Rights
Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked draft decision, steeped in authoritarian strains of religious dogma, is a road map for further erosions of the liberties all Americans enjoy.
May 9, 2022
Alex Shephard
With
Roe,
the GOP is the Dog That Caught the Car
Why Republicans don’t yet want to talk about the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
May 9, 2022
Matt Ford
The Abortion Restrictions That Will Snap Into Place the Minute
Roe
Goes Down
Conservative lawmakers across the country have enacted “trigger laws” that will radically alter the legal landscape overnight if the Supreme Court overturns reproductive rights.
May 9, 2022
Michael Tomasky
Mitch McConnell Said Something That Can Help Democrats Win the Midterms
Democrats need to see to it that McConnell’s remark about Congress possibly passing a federal abortion ban is known to every single American voter.
May 6, 2022
Daniel Strauss
Roe
Leak Fallout: Democratic Attorneys General Plan Push to Make Abortion an Issue
Exclusive: The umbrella organization of Democratic attorneys general is commencing a major expenditure to make abortion rights front and center.
May 4, 2022
Matt Ford
What Could Biden Do After
Roe v. Wade
Is Overturned?
There’s nothing the president can do to stop the Supreme Court from ending the right to abortion. But some legal experts and pro-choice activists have proposed creative ways to limit the damage.
May 4, 2022
Annie Geng
Texans Went to Oklahoma for Abortions—but as of This Week, Oklahoma’s Law Is Just as Severe
With a near-total abortion ban now in effect, anti-abortion protesters at Tulsa, Oklahoma’s only independent clinic feel like “they’ve won the war.” But abortion advocates aren’t ready to give up the fight.
May 4, 2022
Magazine
Linda Coffee
I Argued
Roe v. Wade
. It Would Be a Tragedy to Overturn It.
To take away the right to privacy is to take a giant step backward in American history.
May 4, 2022
Timothy Noah
Women Wouldn’t Lose Their Right to Choose If We Elected Presidents by Popular Vote
Four of the five justices who are prepared to overturn Roe were installed by popular vote–losing presidents. Blame the Electoral College.
May 4, 2022
Meredith Shiner
Democrats Can Go Scorched Earth on Abortion Rights, or Go Home
Don’t ask me again for my vote if you’re just going to sleepwalk through the end of reproductive freedom—and democracy.
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