With Gorsuch, SCOTUS Is Legitimizing “Alternative Facts”
A stolen seat on the highest bench in the country is paying off for conservatives: three decisions, with more to come, that say it’s legal to lie, cheat, and hate.
Reproductive Rights
A New Legal Tactic Could Make Miscarriage a Crime
Overzealous pro-life lawyers are trying to prosecute women whose pregnancies terminated, using fetal DNA. But can they distinguish abortions from miscarriages?
This Is How “Religious Freedom” Restricts Civil Rights
The conservative ideologues at the Department of HHS are working overtime to wrest away our bodily autonomy.
“Natural Family Planning” Is Not Actually Birth Control
By taking Title X money from health providers to fund anti-abortion fake health centers, the government is trying to change the very meaning of contraception.
Cyber Criminals Are Threatening Abortion Access
The anti-choice movement has a new vicious tactic: terrorizing repro-rights fund-raising efforts online. Will the Supreme Court decide a cyber attack is on par with a physical one?
When Even the Pope Thinks You’re Too Fixated on Abortion
The Catholic Church leader is asking abortion opponents to focus their energy elsewhere. No, really.
Death Penalty for Abortions? The GOP Hopes So
It’s not just fringe candidates and pundits advocating for killing women who have abortions. It’s now a GOP platform. And Ohio is leading the way.
The Politics of Menstruation
Millions of women across the nation struggle to afford simple sanitary supplies. It’s time for (mostly male) elected officials to reckon with the economic, health, and educational implications of the “tampon tax.”
Will California Transform the Abortion Access Conversation?
The state has led the way on climate change, gun control, and immigration. A new assembly bill now paves the way for reproductive freedom, thanks to student activists.
Pence’s Abortion-Doom Rhetoric Is All He Has
The Veep's February claim that abortion will end in his lifetime is terrifying. But how realistic is it?