The State of Abortion Rights

The Supreme Court Will Pay for Overturning Roe

There is no court legitimacy without public trust in the court.

America Is About to Confront the Bloody Consequences of Banning Abortion

The sanitization of abortion talk is over.

How States Will Target Pregnant People Now That Roe Has Fallen

The Fundamental Lesson of This Roe Decision

What Biden Could Actually Do About Abortion (Besides Just Tell You to Vote)

No One Is Ready for All the Ways the Fall of Roe Could Screw Up Health Care

The Republican Moms Apologizing to Their Liberal Kids

My 2019 Sci-Fi Novel Was About a U.S. Where Abortion Is Illegal in 2022. But I Didn’t Predict the Future.

The Heartbreaking Story of One Woman Who Was Forced to Surrender a Baby Before Roe

“I feel like I was in a car accident. … It changed my personality.”

What It’s Like to Perform a Comedy Show About Abortion in New York—and in Texas

The End of Roe Is Going to Be a Nightmare for Women in the Military

The Real Story Behind the “We Will Adopt Your Baby” Couple Is So Much Worse Than the Meme

What Alito Gets Wrong by Comparing His Opinion in Dobbs to Brown v. Board of Education

Abortion Bans Are Going to Make Stalkerware Even More Dangerous

If It Weren’t for George W. Bush, We Might Still Have Roe

Alito’s Final Dobbs Opinion Is Even More Extreme Than His First Draft

Roe Is Overturned. What Happens Now?

A guide to your basic questions about a post-Roe world.

The Supreme Court Overrules Roe v. Wade

Friday’s ruling purports to protect “life.” In reality, it will only lead to more suffering and death.

How a Nixon Supreme Court Appointee Gave Americans the Right to Abortion

People Helping Women Get Abortions Pre-Roe Were Heroes. It Wasn’t Enough.

I’m an Abortion Doctor and a Mom. When Kids Ask About “Killing Babies,” I Know What to Say.

Colleges in Red States Are Preparing for a Post-Roe Crisis

How Anti-Abortion Politics Swallowed Up the GOP

The End of Roe and the Threat to Free Speech Online

The Unusual Court Case That Set the Stage for Roe v. Wade

Alito’s Draft Opinion Obsesses Over 17th Century Abortion Law—and Gets It Completely Wrong

HBO’s New Documentary Is About the Early 1970s, but It Couldn’t Be More Timely

Congress Has Never Considered Fetuses Persons Within the Meaning of the 14th Amendment

The Photos That Jump-Started the Pro-Life Movement

How a Catholic Power Couple Changed the Pro-Life Movement Forever

What Happened When I Tried to Change My Friend’s Mind About Abortion

Abortion Used to Be No Big Deal. A Few Angry Men Made It One.

Before Roe, a Florida Woman Was Prosecuted for Getting an Abortion. Her Story Sparked a Movement.

What I Could Never Forget About Dirty Dancing’s Famous Abortion

Why Did Planned Parenthood Halt Abortions in Oklahoma Before the Ban Went Into Effect?

Protecting Abortion Is Vital for the Economy

What Justice Alito Can Learn From a 114-Year-Old Sex Abuse Scandal

In Texas Pharmacies, a Chilling Side Effect of Abortion Bans Is Already Playing Out

The Biggest Mystery of the SCOTUS Leak Isn’t “Who Did It?”

The Ironic, Unintended Consequence of SCOTUS’s Plan to Overturn Roe

The Framers Were Big Fans of Liberty, Unlike Samuel Alito

I Always Told My Patients IUDs Were Over 99 Percent Effective. Then I Got Pregnant.

Doctors in Alabama Already Turn Away Miscarrying Patients. This Will Be Our New Normal Across the Country.

The People Who Promised Roe Was Safe Are Already Selling Their Next Bridge

The Evolution of Pro-Choice Messaging

How should supporters of reproductive rights talk about abortion now?

Four Ways Blue Cities in Red States Can Protect Abortion Access Post-Roe

There’s Already a Revolution in Abortions Happening—and the Supreme Court Can’t Touch It

The Coming Online Fight Over Abortion Will Be Brutal

The Future of IVF Post-Roe

Abortion access isn’t the only thing hanging in the balance if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.

After 30 Years of Turning Abortion Clinics Into War Zones, Now You Want “Civility”?

Interesting feedback!

The Horrifying Implications of Alito’s Most Alarming Footnote

A “domestic supply of infants” is exactly what the framers of the 14th Amendment intended to abolish.

Why Abortion Is Health Care

It’s not just about extreme cases—pregnancy can have a lifelong impact on well-being.

What It Will Take to Fix This

Republicans spent decades fighting relentlessly to overturn Roe v. Wade. Democrats need to learn from their example.

The Most Shocking Aspects of Alito’s Leaked Draft

What Will Right-Wing Media Say if the Supreme Court Leaker Is a Conservative?

A thought experiment.

The Biggest Lie Conservative Defenders of Alito’s Leaked Opinion Are Telling

We Read Alito’s 98-Page Leaked Opinion. Here Are The Most Shocking Lines

Ben Franklin Put an Abortion Recipe in His Math Textbook

To colonial Americans, termination was as normal as the ABCs and 123s.

The Future of Abortion in the Courts and in Our Lives

Amicus live with the Crosscut Festival.

A Former Pro-Life Activist Has Regrets

“I hate that I stood in front of that clinic and told people that they should only have one option.”

Why the Supreme Court’s Leak Investigation Is a Sham

The institution’s certainty in the sanctity of its own norms is blowing up in its face.

All the Ways Alito’s Opinion Might Criminalize Pregnancy

Susan Collins Knew Exactly What She Was Doing

Why is she pretending to be shocked at its demise?

What Can the Chief Justice Do Now?

Justice Leaked, Reproductive Injustice Served

Reading between the lines of the leak that shook America, and the jurisprudence that’s set to strip millions of their rights.

The Supreme Court Tips Its Hand on Abortion

Abortion rights in America are on borrowed time.

Actually, There Are Perfectly Rational Reasons for Republicans to Be Mad About That Supreme Court Leak

Mitch McConnell: This Is About a Leak. Keep the Midterms out of Your Mouth.

How Congress reacted to the leaked Supreme Court opinion draft that would overturn Roe v. Wade.

The Most Radical, Ominous Aspect of Alito’s Draft Opinion Overruling Roe

What the End of Roe Means for Each State

Anti-abortion legislators have spent decades preparing for this moment.

Why Alito Can’t Find the Right to Abortion in the Constitution

Who Leaked Samuel Alito’s Draft Opinion Striking Down Roe v. Wade—and Why?

The Supreme Court’s Legitimacy Is Already Lost

Regardless of Roe falling, the leaks, and the court’s disregard for the public it is supposed to serve, have already gone too far.

Alito’s Leaked Draft Fully Overruling Roe Is Jaw-Dropping and Unprecedented

The justice’s scathing condemnation of abortion pretends not to imperil other rights. Don’t believe it.

The Most Unexpected Consequence of the Texas Abortion Ban

Only One Blue State Is Fully Preparing for the Next Phase of the Abortion Wars

How Red States Plan to Reach Beyond Their Borders and Outlaw Abortion in America

Idaho’s New Anti-Abortion Law Offers Cash Bounties to Rapists’ Family Members

Sonia Sotomayor Knows Something About Roe We Don’t

The justice’s latest dissent reads like a eulogy.

Does Joe Biden Have Anything Resembling a Plan for Abortion Rights?

We’re Not Going Back to “Before Roe.” We’re Going Somewhere Worse.

We’re headed somewhere worse.

The Fight Over Abortion Is About to Get Extremely Local

This week on the Waves, the Nation’s abortion access correspondent weighs in on what’s happening outside of the Supreme Court.

Inside the Arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority eyes overturning Roe v. Wade.

During Arguments Over Roe’s Fate, Justice Breyer Played Right Into the Conservatives’ Hands

The most senior liberal justice showed why it’s time for him to retire.

SCOTUS Will Gaslight Us Until the End

Oral arguments today made clear that this court will overturn Roe—and that they’ll insist on their own reasonableness the whole time.

During Arguments Over the Fate of Roe, Kavanaugh and Barrett Finally Showed Their Cards

A majority of justices appears eager to overturn the constitutional right to abortion.

The Alternative to Overturning Roe That Terrifies Anti-Abortion Advocates

Almost everyone thinks the Supreme Court will either affirm or abandon Roe v. Wade. But there’s another option.

Republicans Will Be Sorry if the Supreme Court Overturns Roe

A careful read of the polls shows that there could be a furious public backlash if the justices uphold Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban.

Why Men Need to Hear the Stories Women Whisper to One Another

In the wake of S.B. 8, I’ve been thinking about the way I was raised to think about my body, and the way I will raise my son to think about his.

Ending Roe Could Send More Women to Prison for Miscarrying

Mississippi Claims Its Abortion Ban Will “Empower” Women. In Reality, It Could Kill Them.

In reality, it could kill them.

When an Unsigned Midnight Opinion Overturns 50 Years of Precedent

SB 8 is unconstitutional and good to go in Texas (and probably a bunch of other states, too).

How Women Were Made to Suffer for Their Abortions Before Roe v. Wade

Interrogated, examined, blackmailed: how law enforcement treated abortion-seeking women before Roe.

How to Survive a Post-Roe America

If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade, some things will change, some things won’t, and women will be left to cope.

I Had a Late-Term Abortion. President Trump and Pro-Lifers Have No Right to Call Me a Murderer.

What it’s like to have the most devastating event of your life become a misrepresented political talking point.

The Lies That Will Kill Roe v. Wade at the Supreme Court

Conservative activists and judges have pushed falsehoods for decades to fight abortion. This Supreme Court will embrace them.

The Forgotten Abortion-Rights Activist Who Forever Changed the Abortion Debate With a Single Idea

The Abortions We Don’t Talk About: Six Slate Women Tell Their Stories.

Six Slate women tell their stories.

How the Trump Administration Deploys Female Pain as Punishment

The Trump administration’s policies on family separation and abortion are driven by one view: A woman’s pain is fitting punishment.