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They Came for Mifepristone. The Abortion Rights Movement Is Ready.

Medication abortion is back at the US Supreme Court—which is exactly where abortion opponents want it. Last week, in a late Friday afternoon move...

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Supreme Court Reinstates Access to Abortion Pills—For Now

The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily reinstated a Food and Drug Administration rule allowing the abortion pill mifepristone to be prescribed via...

04.05.2026 7

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A Right-Wing Court Just Moved to Choke Off Abortion by Mail

A federal appeals court packed with conservatives has handed abortion opponents a major victory against the US Food and Drug Administration,...

01.05.2026 10

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The Supreme Court Just Made It Harder to Investigate Anti-Abortion Crisis Pregnancy Centers

In an outcome that was widely expected, the US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that New Jersey’s efforts to investigate an anti-abortion crisis...

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The Hidden Health Inequality Facing Even the Wealthiest Black Mothers

You may recall Khiara Bridges from That Video—the one from July 2022, where she calls Missouri Senator Josh Hawley “transphobic” to his face. As...

13.04.2026 7

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Red States Are Doing What Trump Won’t: Going After Abortion Pills in Court

When the US Supreme Court unanimously blocked a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration in 2024 over the agency’s regulation of the...

24.02.2026 8

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Trump’s Abortion Strategy? Do Nothing. But His Base Has Other Plans.

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump made a suggestion that landed on a key part of his far-right coalition like a sucker punch. Referring to...

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Hero of 2025: Kara Swisher

The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective...

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Reproductive Justice Was a Revolution. Here’s Why It Matters in Trump 2.0.

Activist and educator Loretta Ross didn’t know she was helping to birth a movement. The year was 1994, the place was a crowded hotel room in...

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This Confusing Supreme Court Case Could Reshape Oversight of Crisis Pregnancy Centers

Even if you have no idea what a crisis pregnancy center is, the donor website for the First Choice Women’s Resource Centers chain in northeastern...

02.12.2025 10

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South Carolina’s Abortion Bill Is So Extreme Even Anti-Abortion Groups Have Doubts

Imagine an abortion ban so radical that even leading anti-abortion groups have lined up to denounce it. That’s what abortion “abolitionists” are...

18.11.2025 10

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What Tuesday’s Elections Mean for the Future of Abortion Access

Abortion may not technically be on the ballot in Tuesday’s off-year state elections, but in the post-Roe v. Wade era, abortion is always on the...

04.11.2025 10

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Fiercely Anti-Abortion Judge Has Bowed Out of Blockbuster Mifepristone Case

In a ruling by turns petulant, defiant, and resigned, a federal judge in Texas who has spent the past three years trying to help conservative groups...

02.10.2025 10

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The Surgery That Reveals Everything That’s Wrong With Women’s Health Care

For decades, the default feminist position on hysterectomy has been skepticism—and with good reason: The history of gynecology is replete with...

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Just Killed the “Zombie” Abortion Law

When Wisconsin voters flipped the ideological balance of the state’s supreme court in 2023, abortion was very much on their minds. Specifically,...

03.07.2025 10

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The Senate’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Will Create a Disaster for Rural Mothers and Babies

The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which cleared the Senate Tuesday afternoon and is returning to the House, is generally terrible for families....

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How Viability Limits End Up Criminalizing Pregnancy

When Karen Thompson became the legal director at Pregnancy Justice a year and a half ago, she was still learning about the reproductive justice issues...

30.06.2025 10

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Forget Dobbs—The Personhood Movement Wants Much More

To hear people in the anti-abortion movement tell it, the idea that human personhood begins at fertilization is as old as the Bible. But as abortion...

30.05.2025 10

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A Win for Repro Rights: Alabama Can’t Charge Activists Helping Patients Get Out of State Abortions

In the nearly three years since the US Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion, grassroots abortion funds and advocates have...

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