Body Politic Lux Alptraum May 6, 2025

Our Biggest Health Care Risk Is Not a “Coat-Hanger Abortion”

Lux Alptraum May 6, 2025

At a time when health providers are being threatened with criminal charges even for tending to people having miscarriages, medical care has never been more inaccessible. Can we safely self-manage our health care?

Body Politic Lux Alptraum Feb 4, 2025

Trump’s Anti-Trans EOs Are Just the Beginning

Lux Alptraum Feb 4, 2025

The Republicans’ merciless obsession with destroying trans lives is indicative of something larger: a full-throated effort to strip all of us of our bodily autonomy.

The Well Actually Andrea Grimes May 2, 2024

Trump Employs an Abuser’s Approach to Abortion Rights

Andrea Grimes May 2, 2024

The GOP presidential candidate has promised to punish and prosecute anyone who has an abortion. For those who've experienced domestic violence, these tactics feel all too familiar.

State of Disunion Kaitlin Byrd Oct 4, 2022

What Was That About the GOP Wanting Less Government?

Kaitlin Byrd Oct 4, 2022

The party that claims to push for small government is creating laws to control every crevice of our most personal decisions, determining whether we strain, suffer, live or die.

The Well Actually Andrea Grimes Sep 27, 2022

Democrats Are Counting on a “#Roevember”—But Should They Be?

Andrea Grimes Sep 27, 2022

Until the Dobbs decision this past summer, abortion has always been treated by the Democrats as a niche issue. Now they’re holding out hope that outrage will drive voter turnout and save democracy.

The words anti abortion. A pencil is erasing the anti part

Access Denied Lauren Rankin Sep 15, 2022

Beware the Suddenly “Moderate” Republican

Lauren Rankin Sep 15, 2022

GOP candidates know their anti-abortion positions are unpopular, so they're burying their extremist rhetoric and hoping voters will fall for it.

A photo of activist Bracey Sherman holding up a sign at a rally that says "I had an abortion." The sign she is holding is also to the right and left of the main image.

The Well Actually Andrea Grimes Jul 26, 2022

Where Is the Post-Roe Leadership?

Andrea Grimes Jul 26, 2022

With an administration that has failed to protect abortion access, activists—most of them people of color, including a handful of Congress members—are left to lead the way.

Four pieces of paper that say "access," "roe," "abortion," and "restrictions."

The Well Actually Andrea Grimes Jun 1, 2022

Newsrooms Need a Primer on Abortion Reporting

Andrea Grimes Jun 1, 2022

Roe has been under siege for decades, yet mainstream journalists are just now playing catch up—and it's leading to a lot of misinformation that could have dire consequences.

Roe v Wade on the car mirror with a desert road in the background

Access Denied Lauren Rankin May 11, 2022

The GOP Aren’t the Only Culprit in Overturning ‘Roe’

Lauren Rankin May 11, 2022

The Republicans have done everything in their power to erode our Constitutional right to a safe, legal abortion. But are the Democrats totally blameless?

The cover of the book "The End of Roe v. Wade: Inside the Right's Plan to Destroy Legal Abortion" by Robin Marty and Jessica Mason Pieklo

Access Denied Robin Marty Sep 25, 2019

This Is (Probably) How Legal Abortion Ends in America

Robin Marty Sep 25, 2019

An exclusive excerpt from the newly updated ‘The End of Roe v. Wade’ reflects on this past year, which has seen previability bans pass in state after state.