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Melissa Gira Grant

Melissa Gira Grant

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Who’s Afraid of Repealing the Comstock Act?

Conservative groups believe the United States already has a national abortion ban on the books, just waiting to be enforced: It’s the Comstock Act...

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The Supreme Court Has Ruled, and Idaho’s Trans Teens Will Suffer

This week, the Supreme Court allowed a ban on gender-affirming care for minors to go into effect in Idaho while legal challenges against the law...

17.04.2024 5

New Republic

Melissa Gira Grant

There Is No “Moderate” Republican Position on Abortion

Arizona’s near-total abortion ban—an 1864 law recently deemed enforceable by the state’s supreme court, though not yet in effect—is rightly...

16.04.2024 4

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The Right Won’t Admit the Comstock Act Would Mean Arrests for Abortion

About a half-hour before the Supreme Court heard oral arguments last month in Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the...

10.04.2024 6

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The Sketchy Career of an Anti-Abortion Doctor in the Mifepristone Case

For Tyler Johnson, an emergency room physician from Grabil, Indiana, November 2022 was a pivotal month. Johnson is one of several named plaintiffs in...

28.03.2024 20

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Two Supreme Court Justices Favor Zombie Law From 1873 to Ban Abortion

Outside the Supreme Court Tuesday morning, ahead of oral argument for a case that could severely restrict access to the abortion drug mifepristone,...

27.03.2024 20

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The Big Problem With All These Abortion Ballot Initiatives

In at least 13 states, abortion rights are headed toward the November ballot, and the prevailing hope is that voters mobilized by the end of Roe will...

20.03.2024 4

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What Abortion Rights Have to Do With Voting Rights

If you want to know what threats to democracy might look like going forward, you do not have to imagine Trump returning to the White House and...

14.03.2024 6

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Ron DeSantis’s Anti-LGBTQ Regime Is Crumbling

If Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had a signature policy, it was “Don’t Say Gay.” The law, which prohibited discussion of sexual orientation or...

13.03.2024 5

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The Sham Group Behind the Biggest Anti-Abortion Case Since Dobbs

The biggest abortion rights case since Dobbs, which the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on March 26, is based around a simple narrative: A group of...

07.03.2024 3

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Florida’s New Driver’s License Rule Is Blatant Trans Voter Suppression

Quietly and behind-the-scenes last month, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles issued a memo indicating that they will no...

28.02.2024 5

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Alabama’s Unhinged Embryo Ruling Shows Where the Anti-Abortion Movement Is Headed

For the first time, a frozen embryo has been recognized by the law as a person with rights. This decision by the Alabama Supreme Court last week is a...

22.02.2024 5

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The Zombie Law Trump Wants to Use to Ban Abortion Nationwide

Donald Trump’s lawyer really, really, hopes that Donald Trump doesn’t blow up their plan to ban abortion nationally by talking about it publicly...

20.02.2024 30

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Conservatives Plan to Ban Abortion and Cut LGBT Rights Starting Next January

On January 20, 2025, conservatives plan to resurrect a 150-year-old defunct law to ban abortion across the nation. This is not a secret plan—far...

08.02.2024 40

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Republicans Have a Sneaky New Plan to Ban Kids From Queer Content

The fairly routine ritual interrogation of tech CEOs before a congressional committee hearing took a swerve Wednesday, when X (formerly Twitter)...

01.02.2024 5

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Republicans Reveal Their Endgame in the Fight Over Trans Kids

In the past three years, Republican legislators have proposed and passed a dizzying series of laws prohibiting gender-affirming care for trans kids....

31.01.2024 20

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Joe Biden Is Running on Roe. It’s Not Enough.

“It’s simple,” Joe Biden tweeted . “Restore the Protections of Roe v. Wade Once and For All,” read the image below the tweet. Biden’s...

25.01.2024 10

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DeSantis Will Now Return to What He Does Best: Terrorizing LGBTQ People in Florida

Aside from a handful of running jokes involving pudding and boot lifts, the most durable legacy of the Ron DeSantis presidential campaign, which ended...

23.01.2024 5

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Leonard Leo’s Dark Money Groups Are Targeting AIDS Relief

Now that Roe v. Wade is history, a coalition of anti-abortion groups are eagerly returning to a longstanding fight: to require any U.S. funding for...

18.01.2024 4

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Mike DeWine Is Following the Right’s Vicious Abortion Playbook on Trans Health Care

Last month, Ohio became the latest state to pass a ban on gender-affirming care for minors—part of the wave of anti-trans legislation across the...

11.01.2024 20

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Republicans Now Want You to Believe They’re Pro–Birth Control

It takes major audacity for Republican strategists to propose re-branding the GOP as pro-contraception. Yet that appears to be their plan for staving...

04.01.2024 6

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The Right Is Winning Its War on Schools

Lindsey Burke’s job is to do things such as, when testifying before a House Education Committee in April, proclaiming that we should abolish the...

04.01.2024 5

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Mike Johnson Is the Christian Nationalist We Should Have Seen Coming

One year from now, we may once again find ourselves facing myriad right-wing activists and entities seeking to overturn the results of a presidential...

20.12.2023 10

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The Christian Right Wants to Force Teachers to Out Trans Kids

When Sonja Shaw ran for school board in Chino Valley in the southern California suburbs, she pledged her support to Moms for Liberty, a Christian...

30.11.2023 5

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It’s Hard to Get Abortion Reporting Right in the Post-Roe Era

Simply banning abortion, for some conservatives, isn’t enough. So in April, Idaho became the first state to pass an abortion travel ban, also known...

21.11.2023 4

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How to Keep Wingnuts Off the School Board

Two months ago, parent Lela Casey told the Central Bucks school board, in the third-largest school district in Pennsylvania, that things had gotten...

09.11.2023 4

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The Creepy History of Mike Johnson’s Favorite Anti-Porn App

“Imagine that you have a teenage daughter,” said Ron DeHaas, president of the anti-porn software company Covenant Eyes, in 2011. You go to your...

07.11.2023 6

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Mike Johnson Has a Dangerous Victim Complex

“Christ calls us to be ‘wise as serpents and harmless as doves,’” wrote Mike Johnson on a Creationist website in 2015. Johnson, who became...

31.10.2023 50

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The Absurd Lawsuit That Could Bankrupt Planned Parenthood

A decade-long campaign by Texas Republicans to punish Planned Parenthood and run it out of the state advanced this week, thanks to one of the most...

25.10.2023 2

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DeSantis’s War on “Woke” Colleges Gets Even More Absurd—and Dangerous

The conservative attacks on public education in Florida have become ever more extreme under Governor Ron DeSantis. Now, they’re also becoming so...

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Don’t Let Opposition to Big Tech Disguise the Real Intent of Online Safety Bills

It probably says enough about the current political moment that if you want to learn how people really feel about a proposed piece of legislation,...

28.09.2023 2

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Melissa Gira Grant

The Judge Who Wants to Drag Us Back to the Victorian Era

From the federal bench in Amarillo, Texas, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk laid another plank last week in the expanding Christian nationalist platform for...

27.09.2023 1

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Melissa Gira Grant

How the Anti-Trafficking Movement Gave Cover to Opportunistic Men

This is how the 2011 ad for Ashton Kutcher’s anti–child sex trafficking charity starring Donald Trump goes: Trump appears in the ad while on...

20.09.2023 2

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Melissa Gira Grant

Librarians Are the New Queer Front Lines

Maybe it was inevitable that anti-LGBTQ groups would target the public library in Ferndale—nestled between the police station and a few blocks from...

15.09.2023 20

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The 113-Year-Old Law Behind Anti-Abortion Activists’ Latest Scheme

Could driving someone to get an abortion soon be an act punishable by law? It’s not out of the question, if a newly-emboldened group of extremists...

07.09.2023 3

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