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Why This Teen Birth Control Case Could Kill Access for Everyone

Once the right to privacy is overturned and teens are cut off from accessing birth control, it won't be long before adults are too.

Screw SCOTUS. Higher Education Needs Racial Quotas.

Imani Gandy

If the United States leaned into racial quotas instead of running screaming from them, we might have seen results like Brazil's.

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Here’s One Thing the Constitution Could Do to Protect Trans People

Imani Gandy

The equal protection clause of the Constitution must respond to the rabid anti-trans sentiment in the country. If it cannot, it is worthless.

Let People Convicted of Murder Vote, You Cowards

Imani Gandy

What does the crime of killing someone have to do with voting or democracy? It permits people in power to define what a crime is—like abortion.

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The Supreme Court Cases That Will Be Weaponized by the FedSoc Six

Imani Gandy

The conservatives justices could do more to catapult the country into a theocratic morass than any previous Supreme Court term in modern history.

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Conservatives Are Gaslighting You About the Post-‘Roe’ Hellscape

Imani Gandy

The Alito Court knew that almost two dozen states were champing at the bit to enact abortion bans. They also knew what the impact would be.

Meet the Woman Who Faced 110 Years in Jail for Providing Abortions in 1970s Chicago

Imani Gandy

Judith Arcana and the Jane Collective helped people get abortions pre-Roe. This is what she learned.

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In a Post-Roe World, There’s No Such Thing as ‘Hold Women Harmless’

Imani Gandy

"Hold women harmless" means nothing when the incarceration of women is the natural result of the fetus-first policies anti-abortion activists champion.

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Don’t Fall for the Abortion Okey Doke

Imani Gandy

When it comes to the impending reversal of Roe, I fear the country will want to believe it’s not going to be "that bad." But it's going to be that bad.

Will the Government Hold Pregnant Minors Hostage to Keep Them From Abortions?

Imani Gandy

The Supreme Court case Garza v. Hargan serves as a dangerous blueprint of what anti-choice idealogues have envisioned for pregnant minors.

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Why Texas State Courts Matter in the Abortion Fight

Imani Gandy

In a post-Roe world, it’s state courts that will determine the rights of pregnant people.

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I Agree With Elie Mystal. The Constitution Is Trash.

Imani Gandy

Why should a document drafted by 30-something-year-old slavers influence policies and practices that govern the lives of Black people in this country today?

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Biden Has a Chance to Make Up for the Disastrous Clarence Thomas Confirmation Hearings

Imani Gandy

Biden could have kept Clarence Thomas off the bench but didn't. Three decades later, he has a chance to prove that he is willing to do the right thing.

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