Reproductive Rights

A Realist’s Guide to Progressive Giving

A Realist’s Guide to Progressive Giving A Realist’s Guide to Progressive Giving

Your tax dollars end up doing a lot of harm. Here’s a way to offset the damage.

Dec 20, 2019 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Bernie Could Be America’s First Feminist President

Bernie Could Be America’s First Feminist President Bernie Could Be America’s First Feminist President

The Sanders campaign’s feminism understands that individual success stories and piecemeal reforms are no match for the interlocking systems of oppression.

Dec 18, 2019 / Sara Matthiesen

Why Abortion Doulas Matter, Even When We’re Just Showing Up

Why Abortion Doulas Matter, Even When We’re Just Showing Up Why Abortion Doulas Matter, Even When We’re Just Showing Up

Doulas not only support people having abortions but also demystify abortion in the wider world.

Dec 9, 2019 / Alice Markham-Cantor

Anti-Abortion Extremism Goes Full Psycho

Anti-Abortion Extremism Goes Full Psycho Anti-Abortion Extremism Goes Full Psycho

An Ohio House bill would require doctors to perform a procedure that is medically impossible—or face murder charges. Other bills just as nutty are being enacted across the country.

Dec 3, 2019 / Sasha Abramsky

How Abortion Played on the Air in Virginia

How Abortion Played on the Air in Virginia How Abortion Played on the Air in Virginia

The state’s 2019 state legislative elections flooded airwaves with bad-faith claims about a Democrat-sponsored later-abortion bill, among others.

Dec 3, 2019 / Joan Walsh

How I Won a Florida Swing Seat as a Proud Abortion-Rights Supporter

How I Won a Florida Swing Seat as a Proud Abortion-Rights Supporter How I Won a Florida Swing Seat as a Proud Abortion-Rights Supporter

Consultants advised me not to talk about my work for Planned Parenthood. But I didn’t want to win an election if I could not be myself, and supporting reproductive freedom is found...

Dec 3, 2019 / Anna Eskamani

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Meet the Prosecutors Resisting America’s Frightening New Abortion Bans Meet the Prosecutors Resisting America’s Frightening New Abortion Bans

A group of progressive attorneys is refusing to enforce new abortion laws. But in a legal landscape so hostile to choice, is deliberate inaction enough?

Dec 3, 2019 / Feature / Cynthia Greenlee

How the Next President Can Expand Reproductive Freedom

How the Next President Can Expand Reproductive Freedom How the Next President Can Expand Reproductive Freedom

From remaking the judiciary to repealing Hyde to removing the global gag rule, Trump’s successor has their work cut out for them.

Dec 3, 2019 / Feature / Ilyse Hogue

Republican Attacks on Abortion Don’t Send Democrats Running Scared Anymore

Republican Attacks on Abortion Don’t Send Democrats Running Scared Anymore Republican Attacks on Abortion Don’t Send Democrats Running Scared Anymore

In Virginia, Democrats won back the statehouse despite Republicans’ blatant lies.

Dec 3, 2019 / Feature / Joan Walsh

Meet the Fringe Zealot Behind One of the Country’s Most Extreme Anti-Abortion Measures

Meet the Fringe Zealot Behind One of the Country’s Most Extreme Anti-Abortion Measures Meet the Fringe Zealot Behind One of the Country’s Most Extreme Anti-Abortion Measures

Janet Folger Porter was once deemed too radical even for conservatives. Now she’s behind a wave of “heartbeat” bans sweeping the states.

Dec 3, 2019 / Feature / Zoë Carpenter

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