The Country Where Having a Miscarriage Can Land You in Prison
El Salvador shows what happens when countries criminalize abortion: women end up behind bars, and sexual violence is institutionalized.
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The Democrats Have Been Embarrassingly Useless on Abortion
For months, the Democratic Party leadership knew the Supreme Court was preparing to gut Roe v. Wade. When it happened, they sprang into action and immediately did nothing.
The Supreme Court Has Always Been a Reactionary Body
The Supreme Court’s decision overturning the right to abortion is the latest in a long history of reactionary rulings. We shouldn’t have any illusions: the court is an antidemocratic body that has always been about protecting elites.
When Polish Women Revolted
Looking back at the struggle that, two years ago, defeated a historic anti-abortion bill in Poland.
The Increasingly Violent Antiabortion Movement Is the Real Threat to Public Safety
The political establishment is volubly worried about peaceful protests outside the homes of antiabortion rights judges. But when arson, firebombing, and even murder are inflicted on abortion providers, it seldom seems even to notice.
Clinic Workers Should Be Central to the Fight for Abortion Rights
If there are any gains to be made for reproductive rights in the coming years, they will begin with the workers in clinics all across the United States — not with the politicians on Capitol Hill.
Facebook’s Antiabortion Censorship Is a Reminder of the Perils of “Content Moderation”
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, Facebook has started censoring posts about mailing abortion pills. It’s a reminder that even if you support the idea of tech censorship now, sooner or later your views will be targeted.
Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929–2020)
Judith Jarvis Thomson was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. Her justly famous essay in defense of abortion rights is a model for how to combine philosophical rigor with political engagement in the real world.
Abortion Rights Are a Labor Issue
Both labor and the reproductive rights movements are fighting for the same thing: the right to control our own lives.
Voters Went Left on Health Care in Tuesday’s Midterms
In this week’s midterms, Medicaid expansion and abortion rights proved popular, even in red states. It shows how popular left-wing views on health care can be and why socialists should keep talking about them.
Agency and Abortion
What Donald Trump can learn from Frederick Douglass.
Introducing Stockton to Malone
Episode one of our new podcast Stockton to Malone, on abortion in the United States before Roe v. Wade.
Rights Are Won Through Struggle, Not Handed Down by the Courts
The US Supreme Court is on the rampage, rolling back progressive gains from abortion rights to climate action. To stop conservative judges, we need to recognize that the law is a product of social struggle and shift the balance of forces outside the courts.
Democrats Are Still Boosting Antiabortion Congressman Henry Cuellar
A new super PAC run by top Democratic consultants just put a quarter of a million dollars behind Texas representative Henry Cuellar, who opposes abortion rights. With Roe v. Wade on the brink of being overturned, it’s unconscionable.
Rick Santorum Just Came Out and Said What Conservatives Really Think of Democracy
Conservatives have never much liked democracy, but the unpopularity of the modern Republican Party’s agenda has made them more contemptuous. The other day, Rick Santorum even denounced ballot measures on “very sexy things” like abortion and marijuana.
The Idiotic “Sex Scandal” in Texas Is Further Proof That Henry Cuellar Needs to Go
By playing up a fake tabloid scandal involving his progressive opponent Jessica Cisneros, the scandal-plagued anti-abortion Texas House Democrat Henry Cuellar has only further disgraced himself.
The Feminist City
New York City is one of the historic flashpoints for the feminist movement. Tomorrow's anti-abortion protests will not go unchallenged.
The Midterms Are No Victory for the Democrats, but They Are a Defeat for the GOP
The Republicans calculated that by focusing on inflation they could immunize themselves from the growing backlash against the Supreme Court’s abortion decision. They were wrong, but the Democrats shouldn’t celebrate too much.
The Antiabortion Judge With a Financial Ethics Problem
For years, Allyson Ho has received payments from the Alliance Defending Freedom. When the right-wing advocacy group argued a case in her husband’s court, Judge James Ho cast a decisive vote to cut off remote access to the abortion pill mifepristone.
Right-Wing Dark Money Groups Want Regime Change in Iran
As Donald Trump threatens a military attack on Iran, shadowy conservative groups working to gut consumer protections and roll back abortion rights have also been pouring millions into influential think tanks advocating for regime change in the country.