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Chip Somodevilla / Getty What Roe Could Take Down With It
The logic being used against Roe could weaken the legal foundations of many rights Americans value deeply.
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Getty; The Atlantic Republicans Hope Their Assault on Democracy Will Stop a Post-Roe Backlash
Conservatives on the Supreme Court have engineered a system that allows half the country’s population to be stripped of a fundamental constitutional right.
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: The New Normal on Abortion
The Supreme Court appears ready to severely curtail Roe v. Wade.
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Drew Angerer / Getty; Win McNamee / Getty The End of Roe
Today’s oral argument signaled that the Court is poised to reverse Roe v. Wade outright.
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Andrea Morales / The New York Times / … The Judge Who Told the Truth About the Mississippi Abortion Ban
The ban that comes before the Supreme Court on Wednesday is “pure gaslighting,” says the controversial judge who struck it down.
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Henrik Sorensen / Getty Whatever Happened to the Exceptions for Rape and Incest?
New abortion bans are stricter than ever before.
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Getty; The Atlantic No, Really, the Right to an Abortion Is Supported by the Text and History of the Constitution
If the Supreme Court overturns Roe, it will betray the Fourteenth Amendment’s promise of bodily autonomy.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Anti-abortion Movement Will Win Even If It Loses
The Supreme Court seemed skeptical of Texas’s new law, but that doesn’t mean Roe will stand.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Abortion Backup Plan No One Is Talking About
Even in states with the strictest abortion laws, pregnant people have a safe, inexpensive option to terminate their pregnancies. But few know about it.
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Callaghan O'Hare / The New York Times / … Is the Texas Abortion Law Backfiring on the People Who Pushed It Through?
As women rally for abortion rights this weekend, the law faces mounting challenges in the courts.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Messy Post-Roe Legal Future Awaiting America
There’s no clean end to this story.
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Reginald Mathalone / NurPhoto / AP Texas Is Alienating Abortion Moderates
Even some Texans who wouldn’t themselves have an abortion think that the state’s new abortion law is too extreme.
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Tracy Nguyen for The Atlantic The Roe Baby
Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, never had the abortion she was seeking. She gave her baby girl up for adoption, and now that baby is an adult. After decades of keeping her identity a secret, Jane Roe’s child has chosen to talk about her life.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Another Extremist Law That Americans Have to Live With
An anti-abortion measure in Texas will change the practice of medicine. Pregnant patients will suffer.
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Mario Tama/Getty; Sarah Silbiger/Getty; The Atlantic The Strange, Sudden Silence of Conservative Abortion Foes
Why has the right fallen so quiet about Texas’s new abortion law?
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Getty ; The Atlantic The Justices Are Telling Us What They Think About Roe v. Wade
A majority on the Supreme Court appears ready to strike down the landmark decision—but they’re not prepared for the ensuing havoc.
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John Seago; The Atlantic What Texas Abortion Foes Want Next
If John Seago and his allies get their way, abortion would be completely illegal in the United States. Would they be ready for the consequences?
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Deviousness of Texas’s New Abortion Law
The statute is the culmination of a decades-long strategy to end abortion without actually banning abortion.
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Alex Wong / Getty The Abortion Fight Has Never Been About Just Roe v. Wade
Anti-abortion-rights activists have turned their arguments away from protecting democracy and toward maximizing protection for fetal life.
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Marc Piscotty / Getty A Look at the Future of Abortion From Colorado
Abortion-rights opponents pushed a 22-week limit because they believed they could win. They were wrong.
