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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...
Ricardo Arduengo/Getty Shortly after the Arizona Supreme Court upheld a Civil War-era, near-total ban on abortion on Tuesday, Republican...
Repro-Rights supporters demonstrate at the Federal Courthouse in Tucson in 2022. Christopher Brown/ZUMA On Tuesday, the Arizona Supreme Court ...
San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images In ruling that frozen embryos should be legally considered the same as children under a...
Kim Chandler/AP In Alabama, the state Supreme Court ruled this week that frozen embryos can now be considered children under state law. The...
Hans Pennink/AP On Tuesday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation broadening the state’s definition of rape, eliminating the penile...
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...
Alessandra Tarantino/AP Catholic priests can now bless same-sex couples, the Vatican announced on Monday, a notable shift toward creating a more...
Mother Jones; Al Diaz/Miami Herald/Zuma, Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Zuma (3), Bob Daemmrich/Zuma In 1969, then California Governor Ronald Reagan...
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...
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...
SUZANNE CORDEIRO/Getty On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of Texas heard arguments in a suit brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights challenging...
Alejandro Alvarez/AP In 2013, an Indiana woman showed up at an emergency room suffering from severe vaginal hemorrhaging. At first, Purvi Patel...
Mother Jones; Instagram; Wikimedia Allie Phillips, a 28-year-old running as a Democrat for the Tennessee House of Representatives in District 75, has...
Mother Jones; Instagram; Wikimedia Allie Phillips, a 28-year-old running as a Democrat for the Tennessee House of Representatives in District 75, has...
Stephanie Scarbrough/AP On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in United States v. Rahimi , a firearms case challenging a federal law that...
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. ...
A California bill requiring public high schools to provide condoms to their students didn’t make it past Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk this...
This week, hundreds of delegates from around the world began a monthlong meeting as part of Pope Francis’ “Synod on Synodality”—a gathering...
Harm Venhuizen/AP On Monday, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will resume abortion care for the first time in over a year. The organization will...
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...