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Reproductive Justice
May 5, 2022
Magazine
Melissa Gira Grant
The Growing Criminalization of Pregnancy
The end of Roe v. Wade will accelerate an existing effort to criminally punish people for their abortions, stillbirths, and miscarriages.
May 3, 2022
Alex Shephard
Republicans Cast Themselves as the True Victims of the Supreme Court’s
Roe
Leak
It’s a desperate attempt to make it seem like it’s liberals, not the right, who are to blame for the court’s loss of legitimacy.
May 3, 2022
Melissa Gira Grant
The Real Fight for Abortion Rights Is Not in the Courts or Congress
Communities across the country have already been preparing for the end of Roe.
April 6, 2022
Melissa Gira Grant
The Law Alone Can’t Halt the Christian Right’s Crusade Against Abortion and LGBTQ Rights
Liberals can’t count on the courts to protect against Republican ambitions to roll back civil rights.
October 11, 2021
Annie Geng
Legal Whiplash Around the Texas Ban Is a Reminder: Courts Alone Can’t Save Abortion
While Texas providers remain in limbo, advocates are stepping up local strategies for abortion access.
September 14, 2021
Amy Littlefield
Texas Republicans Can’t Stop All Medical Abortions
The state is trying to regulate something it can’t: the decentralized distribution of pills largely originating in Mexico, where abortion is no longer a crime.
March 19, 2021
Annie Geng
Conservatives Tried to Use the Pandemic to Crush Abortion Access. Abortion Funds Fought Back.
People “saw what the governor and state legislature were trying to do, and it made people realize the importance of the funds,” one organizer said of the assault on reproductive rights.
March 2, 2021
Melissa Gira Grant
This Is How Sex Workers Win
The mainstreaming of “sex work is work” and strong decriminalization policy proposals are signs of the movement’s success. What comes next?
January 5, 2021
Melissa Gira Grant
The Election in Georgia Is About Reproductive Justice
Rather than seeing the concerns that shape our reproductive lives as an obstacle to reaching voters, some organizers are framing their approach around them. They think it’ll pay off.
September 29, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Elite Sisterhood of Amy Coney Barrett
Her nomination to the Supreme Court isn’t just about overturning Roe. It’s about redefining womanhood.
September 19, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the End of the One Great Woman Myth
The meme-ification of the justice was just one part of the brand-driven, girl-bossed, leaned-in conception of women’s freedom in which it incubated.
September 17, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
ICE Is the New Face of America’s Legacy of Forced Sterilization
“What would it mean to give consent to be sterilized in a prison or detention center?”
July 14, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
A Window of Possibility on Self-Managed Abortion
Telehealth has grown increasingly common in the face of Covid-19. A federal judge has now extended that access to medication abortion.
June 18, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
A Worker Uprising at Planned Parenthood
Staff at the New York affiliate of the health care provider say their CEO is abusing her power and compromising their mission.
January 3, 2020
Katie McDonough
Abortion Without
Roe
What does the landmark Supreme Court ruling mean to a country always on the brink of losing it?
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