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

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...

01.04.2025 10

Mother Jones

Nina Martin

The Forgotten—and Incredibly Important—History of the Abortion Pill

At his Senate confirmation hearings to head the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. surprised no...

07.02.2025 3

Mother Jones

Nina Martin

Louisiana Indicts NY Doctor for Telemedicine Abortion

In what is believed to be the first criminal case of its kind in the post–Roe v. Wade era, a New York-based telemedicine provider has been indicted...

01.02.2025 20

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Nina Martin

How This State Supreme Court Ruling Could Set Up a Battle Over Comstock

The harder Texas has worked to ban abortion, the more New Mexico has done to welcome patients fleeing the state—and vice versa. In the months after...

20.01.2025 5

Mother Jones

Nina Martin

What People Get Wrong About Christian Women Who Voted for Trump

Mother Jones illustration; Brynn Anderson/AP You probably saw the cartoon that went viral before the election: A long line of women enter the...

07.01.2025 3

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Nina Martin

I’ve Covered Kamala Harris for 20 years. One Thing About Her Has Never Changed.

Mother Jones illustration; Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle/AP; Brandon Bell/Getty The first time I met Kamala Harris, in 2007, I was a...

06.11.2024 20

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Nina Martin

Swing States of Anxiety

Supporters arrive for a Kamala Harris campaign event in Atlanta last weekend. Georgia officials say early voting has broken state records....

26.10.2024 2

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Nina Martin

A Court Just Threw Out Georgia’s Six-Week Abortion Ban

Nearly 75 percent of Georgians—including 62 percent of Republicans—don't want to see abortion criminalized before viability. Krisztian...

01.10.2024 20

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Nina Martin

California Sues Catholic Hospital for Denying Emergency Abortion Care

Across the country, one in every six acute-care hospitals is Catholic-run. Jessie Wardarski/AP Many Californians are proud of their state’s strong...

01.10.2024 5

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Nina Martin

Criminalizing Pregnancy: A Record Number of Pregnant Women Were Prosecuted the Year After Dobbs

Senate Republicans blocked a resolution to guarantee emergency access to abortion nationwide. John Locher/AP One night in March of 2023, Amari...

25.09.2024 40

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Nina Martin

Florida’s Maternity Homes Made Single Mothers Feel Like “Criminals”

Mother Jones illustration; Getty In the years before the Supreme Court ended the federal right to abortion, Florida’s 55 reproductive health care...

24.09.2024 10

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Nina Martin

Report: Florida’s Six-Week Ban Caused the Number of Abortions to Plummet

Abortion-rights advocates march and rally in support of the Yes On 4 campaign in downtown Orlando, Florida, against the six-week ban that will...

13.09.2024 2

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Nina Martin

Emerge Backed Kamala Harris in 2003. Now It’s Trying to Change the Face of Politics.

Kamala Harris meets with supporters in front of the 24th street BART station while on the campaign trail running for District Attorney in San...

09.09.2024 7

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Nina Martin

My Lunch With Kamala’s Mom

Shyamala Gopalan Harris Mother Jones illustration; Courtesy Kamala Harris Campaign Shyamala Gopalan Harris did not believe in coddling. Pay her...

22.08.2024 10

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Nina Martin

Kamala Harris Bet on Barack Obama. Now He’s Returning the Favor.

Kamala Harris and Barack Obama in 2012 Paul Chinn/San Francisco Chronicle/AP When Barack Obama takes the stage in Chicago tonight to support the...

21.08.2024 3

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Nina Martin