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John J. Custer Overturning Roe Would Be Just the Beginning
A self-assured right-wing majority may be ready to radically alter our legal system and destroy the public’s trust in the Supreme Court and the law.
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The Atlantic; Ellen Gruber Garvey I Helped Women Get Abortions in Pre-Roe America
To think we’re going back to that world makes me angry and sad.
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The Atlantic; Alamy The Abortion-Rights Message That Some Activists Hate
A devastating defeat in the Supreme Court could be a boon to the Democrats’ slim midterm hopes—if they can agree on the way to convert progressive anger into votes.
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Dennis Brack / Bloomberg / Getty; The Atlantic What Alito Doesn’t Understand About Pregnancy
A conservative justice’s draft treats pregnancy as a simple matter: Either a uterus is occupied by a fetus or it is not.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty How the End of Roe Would Change Prenatal Care
Genetic testing is a routine part of pregnancy. Abortion restrictions are already shifting how doctors talk about the results.
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Darren McCollester / Getty The Supreme Court’s Next Targets
The conservative majority is likely to overturn major precedents this term—not just Roe.
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Associated Press The Myth That Roe Broke America
The debate over abortion is an important part of the story of polarization in American politics, but it is not its genesis.
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Erin Schaff / Getty The Supreme Court Needs an Ethics Code
Without the formal adoption of ethical standards, the Court may begin to seem more like a political body than a guardian of the rule of law.
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Tom Brenner / Getty There’s a Better Way to Debate Abortion
Caution and epistemic humility can guide our approach.
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Stephen Voss / Redux When a Right Becomes a Privilege
The main difference between the women who will make it to an abortion provider in a post-Roe world and those who won’t? Money.
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The Atlantic The Abortion Debate Is Suddenly About ‘People,’ Not ‘Women’
What progressives lose when they won’t name the group most affected by abortion bans.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic I Invented Gilead. The Supreme Court Is Making It Real.
I thought I was writing fiction in The Handmaid’s Tale.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Abortion Policy Most Americans Want
I dug into the numbers, and found that views were more straightforward than I thought—and the exercise was more disquieting than I anticipated.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Moviestore Collection Ltd … Knocked Up and the American Impulse to Edit Out Abortion
How the comedy, now 15 years old, foresaw Roe’s looming tragedies
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Samuel Corum / Bloomberg / Getty What’s the Point of Going to Brett Kavanaugh’s House?
Demonstrators have largely given up on changing the Supreme Court justices’ minds. But they’re still showing up.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Calamity of Unwanted Motherhood
Penelope Mortimer’s 64-year-old novel is a powerful argument for letting women choose when and whether they become a parent.
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Ting Shen / Bloomberg / Getty The New Jane Crow
Justice Alito’s draft opinion signals a willingness to subject women and girls to second-class citizenship.
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Getty; The Atlantic What We Keep Getting Wrong About Abortion
Liberty requires restraints on government power.
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The Atlantic Predictions for a Post-Roe America
What could Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion mean around the country? Three Atlantic writers weigh in.
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Al Drago / Bloomberg / Getty; The Atlantic ‘I’m Very Conflicted’: Readers Share Complex Views on Abortion
Readers share their views on the personal, legal, and political sides of the issue.
