Mail-Order Abortion is Safe and Feasible, Study Finds
Mail-order abortion is a safe and effective option with high patient satisfaction, a new study published in Contraception finds. For two decades, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has restricted...
View ArticleColorado governor signs bill guaranteeing the right to an abortion regardless...
As GOP states across the country make moves to ban abortion and restrict residents from obtaining essential health care services, some Democratic states are making moves of their own. Colorado’s...
View ArticleIt's all of a piece
Just like the Tweed ring: equal credit, equal blameThe move in Oklahoma to absolutely criminalize abortion with imprisonment and fines seems extreme, but many forget how extreme—this idea of...
View Article'Herrera cannot and should not be prosecuted': District attorney to dismiss...
A Texas district attorney announced on Sunday that a 26-year-old woman charged with murder for a "self-induced abortion" should never have been indicted, and prosecutors will be filing a motion to...
View ArticleMaryland lawmakers override Republican governor's veto to expand abortion access
Maryland has become the latest state to take steps to protect its population from the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, as is expected to happen this summer. State legislators expanded abortion...
View ArticleOklahoma governor signs bill banning abortions, threatens providers with...
GOP majority states are taking jab after jab on abortion rights. States across the country are passing their own versions of Heartbeat Bills or abortion bans that not only limit when abortions are...
View ArticleFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs 15-week abortion ban into law without...
Advocates are calling today a dark day in Florida. Making Florida the latest to restrict abortion access, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that bans most abortions after 15 weeks. The move comes two...
View ArticleThis Week in Statehouse Action: Spring Sting edition
Some days I think about renaming this missive “This Week in EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE AND WE’RE DOOMED.”But that’s not always true, and the terribleness I describe in this space is statehouse-specific, so...
View ArticleThe realities of navigating Texas’ anti-abortion laws
by Tina VásquezThis article was originally published at PrismOn April 8, a small news outlet covering Texas’ Rio Grande Valley published a story that sent shockwaves through the reproductive justice...
View Article‘This is a win, but it is only the first step’: Federal judge blocks Kentucky...
In a decision in favor of abortion advocates across the state, a federal judge temporarily blocked Kentucky officials from enforcing a new abortion law on Thursday. U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women
My latest read was Laurie Penny’s Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback. She has some interesting thoughts on the concept of consent. For years, we’ve been expected to accept...
View ArticleBiden responds to 'leaked' SCOTUS opinion, says abortion rights are...
President Joe Biden has issued a statement emphasizing his commitment to keeping abortion accessible following the release of an alleged leaked draft opinion by Politico that states the Supreme Court...
View Articleprevious guy's Big Lie and his Supreme Court: Lies and the Lying Liars who...
If they lie about Roe v. Wade as “settled law” what will they do when previous guy finally comes under a judicial lens.xThis is the dumbest thing imaginable I say this as someone who worked on The...
View ArticleTHE SUPREME COURT HAS VOTED TO OVERTURN ROE V. WADE!! - *Updated x 4*
egal experts: Alito's leaked decision also calls into question laws on birth control, privacy and same-sex marriage“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled," Alito writes, according to Politico....
View ArticlePolitico leaks SCOTUS draft that may overturn Roe v. Wade
Updates as they appear. Neal Katyal thinks it’s a legit draft with a legit preliminary straw vote majority on a 60 page draft.xin which, once again, there are only ever two maps of the united...
View Article‘Shout Your Abortion’ trends on Twitter again after leaked SCOTUS draft...
People have flooded social media in outrage in the hours after Politico published a leaked draft opinion indicating on Tuesday the Supreme Court’s intention to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade...
View ArticleAbortion Rant: People, we're in the End Game now.
Well, the curtain has been parted, the mask has fallen, and the right-wing SCOTUS have finally revealed exactly who they’ve been all along.The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v....
View ArticlePlease remember who the real enemy is
This morning has all of us in shock and mourning and filled with anger.I must admit that one of my first sources of anger was the people on the left who refused to vote for HRC in 2016.But I reminded...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren and others react with rage to SCOTUS draft reversing Roe v....
Americans across the country are reacting with rage after a leak of a draft opinion by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was published by Politico Monday. In it, the highest court defended their...
View ArticleAlito's opinion nixing Roe v. Wade draws heavily on old-timey,...
Let’s face it: This Republican-packed Supreme Court was always going to overturn Roe v. Wade. The only question was which B.S. justification it was going to use to do it. I was a little worried they’d...
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