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There is no mention of the procedure in a four-thousand-word document crafted by fifty-five men in 1787. This seems to be a surprise to Samuel Alito.

Based on “privacy” rather than a woman’s right to control her reproduction, Roe v. Wade was never the "free, safe, legal, and accessible" abortion solution for all women that the Women’s Liberation Movement began fighting for in the 1960s.

Reader Comments: Abortion; SCOTUS Turns Back Rights; Amazon Workers and Today's Labor Movement; Cesar Chavez; Organizing: Then & Now; Defending Social Studies Education from Censorship; more....

“In effect, the Texas Legislature has deputized the State’s citizens as bounty hunters, offering them cash prizes for civilly prosecuting their neighbors’ medical procedures.”

Proposed ballot collection restrictions in Arizona and Montana threaten Native Americans’ voting rights. Native and Indigenous American voters helped elect progressive candidates and now face new ballot “security” measures that make voting harder.

Guantánamo’s tainting of justice should, from early on, have served as a warning. Instead, it seems to have become a template for “justice” in the nation’s capital.

In 2005 after John Roberts was confirmed, Howard Zinn wrote: It would be naive to depend on the Supreme Court to defend the rights of poor people, women, people of color, dissenters of all kinds.

'This decision has opened the door to go state by state, legislature by legislature, law by law, and restore access to safe, legal abortion.'