Abortion

By Liz Plank
When it comes to something as simple as women’s reproductive freedom, corporation’s near-silence since last week’s cataclysmic Supreme Court leak of a draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade has been stunning. 

Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus, and Anthony Salvanto
The nearly two-thirds of Americans who want Roe v. Wade kept in place say they feel angry and discouraged about the prospect that it may be overturned, describing that as “a danger to women” and as a threat to rights more generally.

By Adrienne LaFrance
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, the very definition of what it means to be American will change for women and girls in the United States.

By Margaret Atwood
The US supreme court draft ruling on abortion is an assault on fundamental individual freedoms. The Handmaid’s Tale author reflects on the issues at stake.

By Jill Lepore
There is no mention of the procedure in a four-thousand-word document crafted by fifty-five men in 1787. This seems to be a surprise to Samuel Alito.

By Michele Goodwin
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of a 15-week abortion ban in Mississippi that provides no exceptions in cases of rape or incest. What’s at stake in this case matters to the countless girls and women who have been raped — including those who, like me, were raped by a father, an uncle or another family member.