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Nina Berman / Redux This Really Is a Different Pro-Life Movement
What happened when a campaign led by northern Catholics was captured by southern evangelicals
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Will Heath / NBC SNL’s Sharp, Frustrated Take on Abortion Rights
Last night’s cold open delivered a barrage of punch lines about how principles from the Middle Ages are serving as the legal precedent for contemporary life.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty America’s Blue-Red Divide Is About to Get Starker
As abortion rights are rolled back in certain states, the gap between the country’s two dominant political coalitions will widen.
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Deirdre Brennan / Eyevine / Redux How to Win the Abortion Argument
Activists overseas have lessons for post-Roe America.
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Al Drago / Bloomberg / Getty 20 Bold Takes on the Roe Draft Opinion
The conservative case for upholding Roe v. Wade, understanding Justice Alito’s legal reasoning, and more
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty What Alito Got Right
The Court’s job is not to determine which rights we should possess but rather which rights we do possess.
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Alyssa Pointer / Reuters The Fight for Roe
Images from some of the protests sparked by the release of a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion
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Sarah Karlan / Bloomberg / Getty The GOP’s Strange Turn Against Rape Exceptions
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, 22 states have abortion bans that would quickly become law. Many of those bans contain no exemptions for rape or incest.
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Getty; The Atlantic Alito’s Plan to Repeal the 20th Century
If the conservative justice’s draft opinion is adopted by the Court, key advances of the past hundred years could be rolled back.
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Fred W. McDarrah / Getty My Mother Was Wrong
The feminists who fought for Roe wanted to believe that their victory was forever. Now their granddaughters are poised to have fewer rights than they did.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Conservatives Aren’t Just Ending Roe—They’re Delighting in It
This is the work of the Supreme Court’s emboldened, radical majority.
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Hannah Whitaker for The Atlantic The Experiment Podcast: The Resurgence of the Abortion Underground
As the Supreme Court prepares to hear a case that could overturn Roe v. Wade in June, the reporter Jessica Bruder speaks with activists prepared to take abortions into their own hands.
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: Roe. v. Wade May Not Stand For Much Longer
Roe v. Wade may not stand for much longer. Activists are already preparing for what comes next, Jessica Bruder reports in our new cover story.
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Photo illustration by Oliver Munday. Source: Deborah Spronk … The Future of Abortion in a Post-Roe America
Inside the covert network preparing to circumvent restrictions
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Drew Angerer / Getty The Anti-abortion Movement’s Gen-Z Victors
At the March for Life, activists felt certain that their triumph was finally at hand.
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Diana Walker / Getty; Karen Bleier / AFP … Sarah Weddington’s Unexpected Path to Roe
She kept her name off the original filing—but then she ran with it.
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Alex Wong / Getty The Supreme Court Is Playing Constitutional Calvinball
If liberals try to apply the logic of the Texas abortion ruling to their own favored causes, they might be in for a rude surprise.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty; The Atlantic There Are More Than Two Sides to the Abortion Debate
Readers share their perspectives.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty A Tragic Conflict of Competing Goods
Searching for nuance at a pivotal moment in the abortion debate
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Getty; The Atlantic Justice Kavanaugh’s Empty Democratic Promise
Returning abortion to the states doesn’t put power into the hands of voters in much of the country.
