Two weeks into May, on a record-breaking 91-degree day, a handful of men and women gathered in a windowless conference room in a Planned Parenthood center in lower Manhattan; they were there to learn about a little-known state abortion law that forces women in New York to give birth to babies who will die in their…
Norma McCorvey, the anonymous plaintiff known as “Jane Roe” in the landmark 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, has died at 69.
While women’s rights activists are (and should be!) still riding the high from Saturday’s global women’s marches, it’s important to use that energy for something productive—like recognizing that Roe v. Wade, which hit its 44th anniversary Sunday, remains under attack and is currently at more risk than ever before.
On Monday, Donald Trump, halfway digested circus peanut and our new president, signed an executive order reinstating the Global Gag Rule in one of his first acts in the country’s highest office. The order bans non-governmental organizations that perform abortion services or even provide information about abortion…
Although Sen. Jeff Sessions is likely to be confirmed as our next Attorney General, he’s having to play an unusual game of defense considering his insane record on race, immigration, women’s health, and domestic violence and hate crime legislation. Questioned by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) on his strident opposition…
Kentucky, which until recently had the last Democrat-controlled legislative chamber in the south, is taking a giant leap towards Making America Great Again by kneecapping the state’s middle class and undermining a woman’s constitutional right to abortion.
It’s a fresh week in the darkest timeline we’re all inhabiting together, and Donald Trump remains both deeply confused and a direct menace to women. In a 60 Minutes interview, he suggested that maybe his Supreme Court nominee will overturn Roe v. Wade: “They’ll have to go to another state.”
One endearing thing about undead tangerine and presidential candidate Donald Trump is what a bad liar he is. Take his insistence that he’s now super anti-abortion, after years of being pro-choice: it just sounds like bullshit. Trump took to Facebook Tuesday night to insist again that he hates abortion and loves…
Today is the four-month anniversary of #ShoutYourAbortion—a hashtag campaign for women who want to speak plainly and unabashedly about their abortions—going viral on social media. Related, but more importantly—it’s also the 43rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark SCOTUS decision that made abortion covered under…
Over the past few years—well, frankly, since the Supreme Court ruled on Roe v. Wade in 1973—we’ve seen a proliferation of evidence that a woman’s right to have an abortion is actively being curtailed by our nation’s representatives. But it’s easy to forget that if you lived before 1973, your lifetime likely spanned…
Much of the Eastern Seaboard is bracing for a big winter storm—especially Washington, D.C., where the National Weather Service has issued a blizzard watch starting Friday afternoon. Also scheduled for Friday afternoon: the annual anti-abortion “March for Life.”
Well, I’ll be damned: some good news in the battle for reproductive rights!
Perhaps you’ve noticed that a magical bird of the internet dropped Season Three of Orange is the New Black a little early Thursday night, and perhaps you have already watched the entirety of the series. (If so: go to bed.)
As it stands the GOP's current abortion bill - slated to be introduced next week - would ban abortions after 20 weeks. The current legislation makes allowances for abortion in the case of rape, but requires that women formally report their assault to the police in order to qualify for the exemption. But some…
Over at Vice, Jezebel alumna Callie Beusman interviews the Dutch abortion activist at the center of the upcoming film Vessel. Who wouldn't want to spend a cold winter night snuggled up with a tub of popcorn and a movie about a doctor who helps women have abortions on a boat?
The groups NARAL Pro-Choice Texas and Progress Texas have obtained audio from a training session held by anti-abortion groups that reveals that those activists track patients, employees and doctors visiting and working at abortion clinics via license plates, physical descriptions and tax records.
One-time government official Sarah Palin is on a roll right now. Fresh off of her choice to celebrate Martin Luther King Day by criticizing President Obama for "playing the race card," she took to her Facebook page to mark the anniversary of Roe v. Wade by pointing out the abortion she didn't but could have had.
Here's an article from last year about the woman (Sarah Weddington) who argued the case. She was only 26! One firm wouldn't hire her after law school because they wouldn't be able to curse at a lady! She's from Texas (yay awesome Texas women)! Here's her picture:
Dr. Kenneth Edelin, convicted in 1975 of manslaughter for terminating the pregnancy of a woman who was six months along, died of cancer today in Sarasota, Florida. His case was one of the first public battles over a woman's right to a late term abortion.
In case you thought that Jim Bob Duggar's comments over the weekend comparing the liberal Americans to Nazi Germans and conservative Americans to the United States army during World War II weren't polarizing enough, he's gone a step further, explaining that the number of fetuses aborted in America is equivalent to "a…
