Abortion, Every Day

Click to skip ahead: Anti-Abortion Activists Crash Out Over Planned Parenthood Funding; In the Nation: The HHS is Pandering to Anti-Abortion Extremists;‘Abortion in the Water’ Isn’t Going Anywhere; Young People Most Likely to Know About Telemedicine Abortion; Antis Claim ‘Free Speech’ Victory in Delaware; What ‘Reproductive Genocide’ Looks Like; Republican Lawmaker Denied Care for Her Ectopic Pregnancy 🚩: conservative or religious news outlet, click with caution The defunding provision of...

Click to skip ahead: Ballot Box: Repro Groups Call for Graham Platner to Step Down; Idaho Voters Could Repeal Their Abortion Ban in November; Republicans’ Abortion Fantasies; Ballot Measure Updates: Virginia, Nebraska, Nevada, Arkansas; Conservatives Are Fighting Over Abortion ‘Abolition’; Indiana Can’t Make Abortion Reports Public Records Well this is a nightmare: a woman who dated U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner told POLITICO that the Maine politician raped her in 2021.

Illustration by Casey Beifuss Jennifer Driver, director of State Innovation Exchange’s (SIX) Reproductive Freedom & Health Equity team, still remembers a conversation she had with a former high school classmate, back in 2017. Driver, born and raised in Alabama, says her former classmate was at a loss when Roy Moore, the GOP candidate for Senate, faced an onslaught of child sexual abuse allegations.

Click to skip ahead: Anti-Abortion Plaintiffs Keep Being Exposed as Abusers; Democrats Call for An End of Pregnancy-Related Arrests; The Anti-Abortion Laws Taking Effect This Month; Planned Parenthood Defunding Set to Expire; In the States: Arkansas, Texas; Trump Administration Sued over Title X Guidelines Once hailed as a mastermind of the anti-abortion movement, attorney Jonathan Mitchell can’t stop embarrassing himself.

Click to skip ahead: Trump Cut $67 Million in Teen Pregnancy Prevention; Texas Woman Denied Miscarriage Care; White House Attacks “Birth Tourism” & Trans Kids; California’s $20M ‘Abortion Reversal’ Suit Heads to Trial; We Need to Hold Crisis Pregnancy Centers Accountable; Republicans’ Mifepristone Attack Just Got Expedited 🚩: conservative or religious news outlet, click with caution File this under shocking, but not surprising: the Trump administration has eliminated over 50 grants for teen...

Click to skip ahead: FDA May Finish its Abortion Pill ‘Safety Review’ Before the Midterms; In the States: Wisconsin, Virginia, Iowa, Nevada & More; Meet the Texas Republican Who Wants to Execute Abortion Patients; Here’s Democrats’ Winning Contraception Talking Point; Pro-Choice Speech Was in Court Last Week; Legislation Watch: Democrats Propose New Abortion Protections; Read My Tabs: SCOTUS, Extremist Judges & the Future of Clinics 🚩: conservative or religious news outlet, click with caution...

Minors are the canaries in the coal mine: their rights—to abortion, to gender-affirming care—are always the first on the chopping block, often under the guise of warped ‘parental rights’ concerns. In too many states, minors must obtain parental consent to access abortion. But what about when the minor seeking care already is a parent, themselves?

To mark the fourth anniversary of Dobbs this week, I wanted to do a special edition of One Good Thing—so I’ve opened the thread to all subscribers today, not just paying members. And instead of asking what good thing happened to you this week, I want to know how you’ve gotten through the last four years. Because let’s face it: it’s been a difficult time, and caring about this issue means carrying around a certain amount of heartbreak every day.

Click to skip ahead: Punishing Women Gains Mainstream Momentum; JD Vance Is Open to Prosecuting Abortion Patients; In the States: Illinois, Florida, Tennessee, New York, Wyoming & More; Democratic Senators Are Calling Out Moms.gov; Planned Parenthood is Coming Back to Louisiana;Ballot Box: Abortion Wins Elections; National Abortion Federation Rejects Viability Restrictions More of this please: The New York Times published an article yesterday about the growing call to punish abortion patients.

Four years after the end of Roe v. Wade, our ability to fight back comes down to whether or not we can keep our heads above water. Because right now, the anti-abortion movement’s most powerful weapon isn’t any one law or attack, but the weight of all of them all at once. Their goal is to inundate us: if we can’t even keep up with the attacks, how can we possibly resist them?