Post-Roe, providers and patients are working across state lines and new legal barriers to provide and access abortion care.
The Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade was a blow to reproductive rights. But fortunately, new data suggest that most of those seeking abortions still seem to be getting them.
Director Phyllis Nagy told Jezebel it was important for her to “normalize this very common healthcare procedure, which it’s never treated as in movies.”
And that number is about to be even higher as states rush to pass new bans and move restrictions out of legal limbo.
The roots of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe go back 50 years, when zealots preaching a gospel of misogyny and homophobia—led by an accused sexual predator—took over America’s largest Protestant denomination.
U.S. has much to learn from new feminist movements that spurred Argentina, Colombia and Mexico to dump traditional abortion laws. Now powerful women’s movements in Mexico, Argentina and Colombia have won access to the right to choose
My sister represented Marla Pitchford, the first woman to be prosecuted for a self-induced abortion in the United States. With Roe overturned, her modern-day counterparts are facing an even worse reality.
The movie "Look Both Ways" was written before Roe was overturned, but director Wanuri Kahiu and star Lili Reinhart have said in interviews that it's pro-choice. I'm not so sure.
The abortion ban map is a Southern map. The Supreme Court's 'ordered liberty' judicial vision is rooted there too. But the South is also the birthplace of the Freedom Movement and emancipatory visions.
"Even though they arrested us, we won't stop our organizing, agitating, and legislating for justice," declared Rep. Cori Bush.
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