By Amy Merrill
Did you know that a safe at-home abortion is now possible? Five years ago, my colleagues and I realized that, despite these pills being proven safe and effective and used around the world by millions to self-manage abortions every year, most people in the U.S. didn’t really understand abortion pills at all.
By Janelle Griffith
“None of this is different. This has been happening forever,” said Linda Goler Blount, president and CEO of the Black Women’s Health Imperative. “It’s in the news, perhaps in a different way. But there’s nothing new about this.”
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“We had to go underground.” #TheJanesHBO tells the revelatory story of a group of unlikely outlaws. Defying the state legislature that outlawed abortion, the Catholic Church that condemned it, and the Chicago Mob that was profiting from it, the members of “Jane” risked their personal and professional lives to support women with unwanted pregnancies in the pre-Roe v. Wade era.
By Heidi Przybyla
Video recordings of Republican Party operatives meeting with grassroots activists provide an inside look at a multi-pronged strategy to target and potentially overturn votes in Democratic precincts: Install trained recruits as regular poll workers and put them in direct contact with party attorneys.
By Alyssa Milano
Women helped put Biden in office. It’s time he repaid us by doing everything in his power to protect our reproductive rights.
By Kate Manning
To expose abortion bans and restrictions for what they are, let’s call them what they are: forced-birth laws, or government-mandated childbirth. This language centers the pregnant woman in the law — her suffering, the toll on her body.
Introduction by Irin Carmon and Maps by Marcus Peabody
The legal right to abortion is likely to disappear in half the country in a matter of weeks. Abortion itself, and the need for it, will not, and never has. The question is what it will cost medically, financially — and criminally.
By Pavithra Mohan and Julia Herbst
Why corporate silence on reproductive rights harms workers – and companies.
Viola Davis and Brene Brown
This is an incredible conversation with none other than the amazing, singular Viola Davis about her new memoir, Finding Me. This book, and this conversation, are gifts—deep reflections on a turbulent childhood, the journey to overcoming trauma, and how she found her voice in the often brutal entertainment industry. She shares some extraordinary experiences that have changed her, and because of who she is, they’ve in turn changed us.
By Katherine Franke
The leaked Supreme Court opinion in the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health case serves as a potent reminder of how weak the protections against sex discrimination are in the current U.S Constitution. A resolution now pending in the Senate could change that.
