reproductive rights
8 briefs
The Abortion Pill Gets Three More Days. Every Three Days.
The Fifth Circuit banned mifepristone by mail. Alito overrode it. Then extended it three more days. The court is running the clock while millions of women wait.
The Mifepristone Stay Expires Today. SCOTUS Has Not Acted.
Justice Alito's one-week pause on the Fifth Circuit's mail-order abortion ban runs out May 11. If the court stays silent, two-thirds of American abortions stop being accessible by mail overnight.
Republicans Just Introduced a National Abortion Ban Labeled Something Else
Rep. Kat Cammack's Dismemberment Abortion Ban Act criminalizes the most common second-trimester procedure. Call it what it is: a national 12-week ban written to sound procedural.
The 5th Circuit Rewrites Who Gets an Abortion
A federal appeals court just restored an in-person requirement for mifepristone, cutting off mail-order access for women in rural and restricted-access states.
The EPA Wants to Test Your Water for Abortion Pills
The agency added mifepristone and misoprostol to its drinking water monitoring list. The stated reason is environmental safety. The actual effect is a surveillance infrastructure for medication abortion.
Trump is Moving Against Birth Control. Quietly, Through a Federal Program.
The administration is transforming Title X, the $300M federal family planning program, away from contraception and toward 'natural family planning.' Planned Parenthood is being cut off. This is happening without legislation.
Pennsylvania Court Strikes Down Medicaid Abortion Ban, Opening the Next Front in the Post-Dobbs War
The ruling uses the state constitution's Equal Rights Amendment to establish a fundamental right to reproductive autonomy. That's a legal argument designed to survive federal courts.
Ohio Voters Put Abortion Rights in the Constitution. The Legislature Is Systematically Dismantling Them Anyway.
The SHE WINS Act is the 11th Ohio bill targeting abortion since voters enshrined reproductive freedom in the state constitution by 57% in 2023. The real test is whether the Ohio Supreme Court will honor the referendum.