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Melissa Gira GrantWashington Post |
A simple narrative about abortion in the November election has already taken root: that the end of Roe is a gift for Biden and a potential landmine...
Pinning down what Trump would do on abortion, if returned to the White House, has become an unnecessarily convoluted affair. His...
When a new abortion ban goes into effect in Florida this week, it will rob people across the south of one of the last few options they had. Floridians...
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...
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...
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...
About a half-hour before the Supreme Court heard oral arguments last month in Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the...
For Tyler Johnson, an emergency room physician from Grabil, Indiana, November 2022 was a pivotal month. Johnson is one of several named plaintiffs in...
Outside the Supreme Court Tuesday morning, ahead of oral argument for a case that could severely restrict access to the abortion drug mifepristone,...
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...
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...
If Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had a signature policy, it was “Don’t Say Gay.” The law, which prohibited discussion of sexual orientation or...
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...
Quietly and behind-the-scenes last month, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles issued a memo indicating that they will no...
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...
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...
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...
The fairly routine ritual interrogation of tech CEOs before a congressional committee hearing took a swerve Wednesday, when X (formerly Twitter)...
In the past three years, Republican legislators have proposed and passed a dizzying series of laws prohibiting gender-affirming care for trans kids....
“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...
Aside from a handful of running jokes involving pudding and boot lifts, the most durable legacy of the Ron DeSantis presidential campaign, which ended...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Two months ago, parent Lela Casey told the Central Bucks school board, in the third-largest school district in Pennsylvania, that things had gotten...
“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...
“Christ calls us to be ‘wise as serpents and harmless as doves,’” wrote Mike Johnson on a Creationist website in 2015. Johnson, who became...
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...
The conservative attacks on public education in Florida have become ever more extreme under Governor Ron DeSantis. Now, they’re also becoming so...
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,...
From the federal bench in Amarillo, Texas, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk laid another plank last week in the expanding Christian nationalist platform for...
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...
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...
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...