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“Abortionist”: The Label That Turns Healthcare Workers Into Criminals

Bráulio Amado In 2007 , after Paul Ross Evans pleaded guilty to leaving a bomb outside of a women’s health clinic in Austin, he assured the...

12.04.2024 3

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Kari Lake Claims She Opposes Arizona’s Near-Total Abortion Ban—The Same One She Cheered Two Years Ago

Ricardo Arduengo/Getty Shortly after the Arizona Supreme Court upheld a Civil War-era, near-total ban on abortion on Tuesday, Republican...

10.04.2024 10

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The Arizona Supreme Court Just Allowed a Near-Total Abortion Ban From 1864 to Go Into Effect

Repro-Rights supporters demonstrate at the Federal Courthouse in Tucson in 2022. Christopher Brown/ZUMA On Tuesday, the Arizona Supreme Court ...

09.04.2024 4

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What Happens If We Actually Treat Fetuses Like People?

San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images In ruling that frozen embryos should be legally considered the same as children under a...

28.02.2024 3

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“It Broke My Heart”: The Brutal Effect of Alabama’s Supreme Court Ruling on IVF Patients

Kim Chandler/AP In Alabama, the state Supreme Court ruled this week that frozen embryos can now be considered children under state law. The...

23.02.2024 5

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New York State Passes Law That Could Have Counted Trump’s Actions as Rape

Hans Pennink/AP On Tuesday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation broadening the state’s definition of rape, eliminating the penile...

31.01.2024 10

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A Federal Judge Has Gone to Great Lengths to Make Clear Trump Really Did Rape E. Jean Carroll

Elizabeth Williams/AP District Judge Lewis Kaplan has said it multiple times: Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll in 1996. Kaplan wrote it in May...

19.01.2024 60

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Catholic Priests Can Now Bless Same-Sex Couples, as Long as They Don’t Look Like Marriages

Alessandra Tarantino/AP Catholic priests can now bless same-sex couples, the Vatican announced on Monday, a notable shift toward creating a more...

19.12.2023 3

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A Running List of Politicians Talking About Making Divorce Harder

Mother Jones; Al Diaz/Miami Herald/Zuma, Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Zuma (3), Bob Daemmrich/Zuma In 1969, then California Governor Ronald Reagan...

14.12.2023 2

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Kate Cox Flees Texas To Seek Abortion

Eric Gay/AP Kate Cox , the woman at the center of a Texas court case to terminate her pregnancy for medical reasons, has been forced to leave...

12.12.2023 30

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A Texas Woman Just Had to Ask a Court to Let Her Terminate a Pregnancy That Could Kill Her

For the first time since Roe was decided in 1973, a pregnant adult is asking a court to step in so she can have an abortion. In late November, Kate...

06.12.2023 2

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Why a Case in Texas on Abortion Exceptions Is a Big Deal

SUZANNE CORDEIRO/Getty On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of Texas heard arguments in a suit brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights challenging...

30.11.2023 4

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From Emergency Room to Prison: Healthcare Providers Are Most Likely To Report Pregnant People

Alejandro Alvarez/AP In 2013, an Indiana woman showed up at an emergency room suffering from severe vaginal hemorrhaging. At first, Purvi Patel...

20.11.2023 10

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She Fled Tennessee for Abortion Care. Now She’s Running for State House So Others Won’t Have To.

Mother Jones; Instagram; Wikimedia Allie Phillips, a 28-year-old running as a Democrat for the Tennessee House of Representatives in District 75, has...

16.11.2023 3

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She Fled Tennessee for Abortion Care. Now She’s Running for State House So Others Won’t Have To.

Mother Jones; Instagram; Wikimedia Allie Phillips, a 28-year-old running as a Democrat for the Tennessee House of Representatives in District 75, has...

16.11.2023 2

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SCTOUS Could Deliver a Win for Domestic Violence Survivors. But the Arguments are Troubling.

Stephanie Scarbrough/AP On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in United States v. Rahimi , a firearms case challenging a federal law that...

09.11.2023 2

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The Most Powerful Man in the House Doesn’t Like Divorce

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Newly minted Speaker of the House Mike Johnson thinks it’s too easy to get divorced, and he’d like to change that.  ...

27.10.2023 70

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Gavin Newsom Vetoed a Bill to Make Condoms Available at Schools

A California bill requiring public high schools to provide condoms to their students didn’t make it past Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk this...

10.10.2023 3

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Massive Changes Could Be Coming From the Vatican. Conservative US Catholics Are Mad as Hell.

This week, hundreds of delegates from around the world began a monthlong meeting as part of Pope Francis’ “Synod on Synodality”—a gathering...

06.10.2023 4

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Planned Parenthood Will Resume Abortion Services in Wisconsin. That Doesn’t Mean Everything Is Fixed.

Harm Venhuizen/AP On Monday, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will resume abortion care for the first time in over a year. The organization will...

15.09.2023 5

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The Right’s War on Divorce—and Its Costs

Mother Jones illustration; Getty She didn’t want to be married anymore, and he didn’t like that. In April, right-wing activist and influencer...

07.09.2023 2

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