The End of Roe

On Abortion, J.D. Vance Is the Bridge Between Trump and Project 2025

Shawn Musgrave

- July 17

Project 2025 and Vance agree: “The Dobbs decision is just the beginning.”

People participate in a "Die-In" to support "reproductive rights and emergency abortion care," outside the US Supreme Court as it hears arguments in the Moyle v. United States case, in Washington, DC, on April 24, 2024. The case deals with whether an Idaho abortion law conflicts with the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Alito’s Dissent in Emergency Abortion Case Provides “Building Blocks” for More Extreme Bans

Jordan Smith

- June 28

Despite deciding not to decide, the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority laid out a legal road map for anti-abortion zealots.

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 26: Trans man and abortion rights advocate Artemis Duffy of New England shows a box of mifepristone he is taking outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on March 26, 2024. (Photo by Shuran Huang for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

GOP States Double Down on Fighting Medication Abortion After Supreme Court Keeps It Legal

Jordan Smith

- June 13

From the jump, the lawsuit challenging the legality of mifepristone was a cynical, propagandistic endeavor. In a 9-0 opinion, the Supreme Court threw it out.

Pro-abortion rights demonstrators rally in Scottsdale, Arizona on April 15, 2024. A woman in the foreground holds a poster with the words "Women. Will. Die." written on it.

Voices

Sterilization, Murders, Suicides: Bans Haven’t Slowed Abortions, and They’re Costing Lives

Judith Levine

- May 26

Is this what the “pro-life” movement wanted?

Republicans Can’t Decide: Do They Hate Prosecutors Because of Bail Reform or Abortion?

Akela Lacy

- May 16

Since Dobbs, state-level Republicans have sought to strip power from DAs elected in Democratic cities who won’t prosecute abortion care.

FILE - A sign reading "My body, my Choice," is taped to a hanger taped to a streetlight in front of the Idaho State Capitol Building on May 3, 2022. The Idaho Supreme Court ruled on Friday, Aug. 12, that the state's strict abortion bans will be allowed to take effect while legal challenges over the laws play out in court. (Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman via AP, File)

Idaho Goes to the Supreme Court to Argue That Pregnant People Are Second-Class Citizens

Jordan Smith

- Apr. 19

The state says EMTALA, a law barring discrimination in emergency medical care, interferes with its abortion ban.

Patients, infertility doctors and advocates of IVF attend a rally outside the Alabama State House on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024 in Montgomery, Ala. The rally was organized at the Alabama State Capitol to decry the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos are considered children, which led to the suspension of IVF treatments in the state. (Stew Milne/AP Images for RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association)

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Pro-Lifers Are Up Against a Real-Life Crisis

Judith Levine

- Apr. 4

The IVF vs. embryonic personhood fracas forces Republicans to face the living people harmed by their defense of cellular rights.

WASHINGTON - MARCH 26: Activisists protest at the U.S. Supreme Court as the court hears oral arguments in the Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine case in Washington on Tuesday, March 26, 2024. The case looks at access to mifepristone, the drug used in medication abortions. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Anti-Abortion Doctors Struggle to Explain Mifepristone Harms Before Supreme Court

Jordan Smith

- Mar. 27

The justices didn’t seem to buy the tenuous theory that would allow the doctors to sue the FDA over medication abortion.

Maria Shriver (L), holds hands with US First Lady Jill Biden (R) as Kate Cox (2nd L), who was denied emergency abortion care by the Texas Supreme Court, and Latorya Beasley (2nd R), who recently had an IVF embryo transfer cancelled following the result of a recent Alabama Supreme Court decision, look on during US President Joe Biden's State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 7, 2024. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Roe Was Never Enough to Ensure Reproductive Freedom

Jordan Smith

- Mar. 10

Biden vowed to codify Roe. But the ruling was never about whether the government had a right to your body, only when it had a right to your body.

Kay Cook holds signs during a House Health Committee meeting against HB1895, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. The bill would create the criminal offense of abortion trafficking of a minor. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

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An Abortion-Seeker Is Not a Victim

Judith Levine

- Feb. 28

“Abortion trafficking” bills and a new study of rape-related pregnancy contribute to the “awfulization” of abortion.