Abortion Archives

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Gavel Drop: Before Election Day, a Flurry of Action on Voting Lawsuits

Brie Shea

Some Native American voters in North Dakota are likely to be disenfranchised at the ballot box tomorrow.

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Oregon’s Anti-Choice Ballot Measure Is Dangerous and Discriminatory

Kim Clark

Oregon's Measure 106 is on the wrong side of history, and must not be allowed to pass. Not in Oregon. Not now. Not ever.

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Midterms 2018: Abortion on the Ballot in These States

Lauren Holter & Gavel Drop: SCOTUS Gets Its First Abortion Rights Petition With Kavanaugh on the Bench

Voters in Alabama, Oregon, and West Virginia will weigh in on abortion-related ballot measures this year.

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Five Times ‘American Horror Story’ Was Spot on—or Way off—With Reproductive Horrors

Brandi Collins-Calhoun

Forced commitment to a mental health hospital, rape, denial of abortion, a coat-hanger abortion, a pastor who holds a woman hostage and lets her bleed to death as punishment for an abortion: The FX show has it all.

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Gavel Drop: Evangelical Group Hints That It May Target Iowa Judges

Brie Shea & Jessica Mason Pieklo

Because they have "notorious opinions" that support things like abortion rights.

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The FDA Is Investigating Self-Managed Abortion Care Website

Erica Martinson

Anti-choice advocates, vowing to fight Aid Access, and are now considering advocating for Congress to intervene.

Iowa’s GOP Governor Suddenly Supports Expanding Access to Contraception

Ally Boguhn

Gov. Kim Reynolds (R), who has supported cutting off funding for Planned Parenthood, has changed her tune on contraception in her re-election bid.

Arizona Democrats Could Finally Put a Check on GOP Power in Midterms

Nicole Knight

“I think it’s the best shot we’ve had in a couple decades,” said Chad Campbell, who led the state's Democratic minority in the house until 2014. “It’s not just one chamber, it’s both chambers in play.”

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Rae Carruth Is Free. But Patriarchy Has Us All Locked Up.

D. Danyelle Thomas

The former NFL player hired men to kill his child's mother because she refused to have an abortion. But the takeaway about murderous masculinity shouldn't be telling women to end pregnancies to stay alive.

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Gavel Drop: SCOTUS Gets Its First Abortion Rights Petition With Kavanaugh on the Bench

Brie Shea & Jessica Mason Pieklo

Weeks into the job, and Associate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will weigh in on whether the court should take an abortion rights case out of Indiana.

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