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The Abortion Movie Scene All Men Should Watch

July 2, 2022

Sidney Flanigan as Autumn in ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’

What Comes After Roe?

July 1, 2022

The Coming Rise of Abortion as a Crime

Melissa Jeltsen

July 1, 2022

A pair of handcuffs shaped like female symbols

Where France Differs on Abortion

Pamela Druckerman

June 30, 2022

A line illustration of a woman’s body with arrows suggesting divergent paths.

What a Story of 1970s Abortion Activism Can Teach Us Today

June 30, 2022

Members of the Janes, a collective of women who provided safe, affordable, and illegal abortions in Chicago in the late 1960s and early '70s

The Domino Effects of New Anti-abortion Laws

Conor Friedersdorf

June 29, 2022

Image of an abortion clinic

The Abortion Pill Can Be Used Later Than the FDA Says

June 29, 2022

Photograph of a box of abortion pills

Why I’m Talking About My Abortion

June 28, 2022

light shining into a dark space through an opening doorway

Roe Was Flawed. Dobbs Is Worse.

June 27, 2022

The Supreme Court

America Is About to See Just How Pro-life Republicans Actually Are

June 26, 2022

People hold up signs that read "I am the post-Roe generation" and "The future is anti-abortion."

The Pro-life Movement’s Work Is Just Beginning

June 24, 2022

Illustration of hands and a mother and child.

If the Supreme Court Can Reverse Roe, It Can Reverse Anything

June 24, 2022

Images of upset faces overlaying an image of the Supreme Court

What My Mom Told Me About America Before Roe

Molly Jong-Fast

June 22, 2022

People demonstrate outside a building, with placards that read "No Restrictions on Our Rights" and "Abortion: A Woman's Right to Choose."

What It’s Like at an Abortion Clinic in Mississippi Right Now

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

June 14, 2022

Collage of the Jackson Women's Health Organization in Mississippi

The Right to Become a Parent Is Now at Risk Too

Laurence H. Tribe

June 14, 2022

Illustration of two blurry figures facing in opposite directions

My Religion Makes Me Pro-abortion

Danya Ruttenberg

June 14, 2022

Two circles overlapping; the left one is red and contains a photo of women protesting for abortion rights; the right one is blue and contains a photo of hands outstretched in prayer

America's Abortion Divide

How to Save Women’s Lives After Roe

Greer Donley and Kimberly Chernoby

June 13, 2022

A black-and-white photo of a female patient

The Most Important Study in the Abortion Debate

June 11, 2022

An exam room in an abortion clinic

Why My Parents Chose Life

Matthew Walther

June 6, 2022

A photograph of the author as a young child, with close-cropped blond hair and wearing a green-and-white henley, on the lap of his mother, sitting in front of a blue and white heart-shaped cake with three lit candles in it

I Helped Women Get Abortions in Pre-Roe America

Ellen Gruber Garvey

June 4, 2022

Image of abortion campaigners' buttons

The Abortion-Rights Message That Some Activists Hate

May 25, 2022

An illustration of a cracked blue feminism symbol (a raised fist surrounded by a Venus symbol)

What Alito Doesn’t Understand About Pregnancy

Chavi Eve Karkowsky

May 21, 2022

An illustration of Justice Samuel Alito appearing in the silhouette of a woman

How the End of Roe Would Change Prenatal Care

May 20, 2022

two strands of DNA are tied together at the bottom in a knot

The Myth That Roe Broke America

May 18, 2022

Anti- and pro-abortion protesters in 1973

There’s a Better Way to Debate Abortion

May 17, 2022

Opponents and proponents of abortion arguing outside the Supreme Court

When a Right Becomes a Privilege

Melissa Jeltsen

May 15, 2022

Black-and-white photo of a protester, blurry in the foreground. The Supreme Court, in sharp focus, is framed by her upstretched arms.

The Abortion Debate Is Suddenly About ‘People,’ Not ‘Women’

May 14, 2022

A common symbol for women gradually disappears

The Abortion Policy Most Americans Want

Jerusalem Demsas

May 13, 2022

An illustration of a pie chart marked with a female gender symbol

The New Jane Crow

Michele Goodwin

May 11, 2022

Supreme Court at night

‘I’m Very Conflicted’: Readers Share Complex Views on Abortion

Conor Friedersdorf

May 9, 2022

Abortion-rights demonstrators hold signs during a protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, May 3, 2022.

This Really Is a Different Pro-Life Movement

Daniel K. Williams

May 9, 2022

A black-and-white photo of Christian worshippers

SNL’s Sharp, Frustrated Take on Abortion Rights

May 8, 2022

Benedict Cumberbatch, James Austin Johnson, Andrew Dismukes, and Cecily Strong appear on 'SNL.'

How to Win the Abortion Argument

May 5, 2022

Abortion-rights activists march in Dublin.

America’s Blue-Red Divide Is About to Get Starker

Ronald Brownstein

May 5, 2022

Abortion-rights activists outside the Supreme Court

20 Bold Takes on the Roe Draft Opinion

Conor Friedersdorf

May 4, 2022

Abortion-rights demonstrators hold signs during a protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, May 3, 2022.

What Alito Got Right

May 4, 2022

Justice Samuel Alito