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South Carolina Attacked Planned Parenthood. Will SCOTUS Let Patients Fight Back?

South Carolina Attacked Planned Parenthood. Will SCOTUS Let Patients Fight Back?

Perhaps what was most significant in the debate at the US Supreme Court Wednesday morning, during oral arguments in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South...

03.04.2025 2

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Ken Paxton Finally Found Healthcare Providers to Charge With “Illegal” Abortion

In what appears to be the first arrests of healthcare providers for allegedly violating a post-Roe v. Wade state abortion ban, Maria Margarita Rojas,...

19.03.2025 20

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Supreme Court to Decide Whether States Can Ban Anti-LGBTQ Conversion Therapy on Kids

In what could foreshadow a major new onslaught against queer and trans children, the US Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear a case...

11.03.2025 20

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Trans Youth and Their Families Are Suing Trump Over Canceled Healthcare

Seven young transgender patients, providers of LGBTQ healthcare, and the advocacy organization PFLAG sued President Donald Trump and his...

05.02.2025 10

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RFK Jr. Signals He’ll Give the Anti-Abortion Movement Exactly What They Want

Last Friday, my colleague Julianne McShane and I broke the news of a pair of letters sent by 30 prominent anti-abortion movement leaders to the heads...

30.01.2025 20

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Anti-Abortion Leaders Lobby Trump Officials For An Abortion Pill Crackdown

The anti-abortion movement has launched a pressure campaign urging President Donald Trump’s administration to take steps toward a nationwide ban on...

24.01.2025 2

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Trump’s Definitions of “Male” and “Female” Are Nonsense Science With Staggering Ramifications

A few hours after taking the Oath of Office on Monday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order purporting to redefine “male” and...

23.01.2025 4

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Trump Declares War on Transgender People

Upon assuming the presidency Monday, Donald Trump is expected to immediately move to end the federal government’s recognition of transgender people,...

21.01.2025 90

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Trump’s Next Attacks on Abortion Rights Will Be More Insidious Than a Ban

During his campaign, incoming president Donald Trump did everything possible to muddy his record on abortion and reproductive healthcare. He...

17.01.2025 20

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Here’s the Real Number of Children Receiving Gender-Affirming Medical Treatment

Countless words have been spilled—including in Mother Jones—on the topic of medical care for transgender youth. The attention, in part, comes from...

10.01.2025 8

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Missouri Judge Blocks Abortion Ban—But Clinics Still Can’t Reopen

Planned Parenthood's St. Louis abortion clinic in 2020. Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/AP Last month, Missourians voted to add the right to...

22.12.2024 8

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The Supreme Court’s Christmas Gift to Religious-Right Lawyers

A person holds a cross outside of the Supreme Court during the 2023 March for Life. Alex Brandon/AP The Supreme Court agreed last week to hear a...

21.12.2024 3

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As the Supreme Court Weighs Trans Care for Minors, Adults Are in the Crosshairs

Trans-rights supporters rally outside the US Supreme Court on Wednesday. Angelina Katsanis/Politico/AP After the Supreme Court ruled nine years ago...

05.12.2024 9

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This Supreme Court Case Could Change Everything for Trans Rights

Mother Jones illustration; Getty In 2016, when Tennessee OBGYN Susan Lacy learned she would be providing gender-affirming care to transgender...

02.12.2024 10

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Missouri Voted on Abortion Rights and Abortion Rights Won

Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/AP The first state to ban abortion after the fall of Roe v. Wade just became the first state to have a...

06.11.2024 10

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New Yorkers Just Created the Most Extensive Anti-Discrimination Protections in the US

Ira L. Black/Corbis/Getty In a victory for abortion rights advocates, New Yorkers just voted to enshrine extensive anti-discrimination protections...

06.11.2024 10

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What the “Most Anti-LGBTQ” Election in Decades Means for Trans People

Daniel Knighton/Getty In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, GOP consultants were fighting over strategy: Would going all-in on...

05.11.2024 5

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Supreme Court Races Could Help Decide the Future of Abortion in These Seven States

Protesters rally in Scottsdale after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled than an 1864 abortion ban was enforceable. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty In...

03.11.2024 4

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What Would the Future of Birth Control Be Under Trump? Ask Texas.

Mother Jones; Matt Bishop/imageSPACE/Zuma; Getty When Wendy Davis wanted to get birth control as a teenager in the 1980s, she went to her local...

31.10.2024 2

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How Abortion Foes Are Using Transphobia to Derail New York’s Equal Rights Amendment

Mother Jones illustration; Jose Luis Magana/AP In late August, on the fringes of a press conference outside New York City Hall, a man wearing a...

04.10.2024 10

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Harris Blames Georgia Mother’s Death on “Trump Abortion Bans”

Vice President Kamala Harris interviewed by members of the National Association of Black Journalists on Tuesday. Jacquelyn Martin/AP Vice President...

18.09.2024 7

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A Georgia Woman Has Died After an Abortion Ban Delayed Lifesaving Care

peakSTOCK/Getty Reproductive justice advocates have been warning for more than two years that the end of Roe v. Wade would lead to surge in...

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A Hopeful Week for Abortion Rights: Four State Courts Issue Favorable Rulings

Protesters supporting abortion rights chant outside the Nebraska legislative chamber in May 2023. Kenneth Ferriera/Lincoln Journal Star/AP More...

15.09.2024 40

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Women on TikTok Are Schooling a Trump Ally Who Denied People Are “Bleeding Out” Due To Abortion Bans

Former Trump White House official John McEntee. Evan Vucci/AP When Project 2025 staffer and former Trump White House personnel chief John McEntee...

14.09.2024 3

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Missouri Officials Tried Everything to Keep Abortion Off the Ballot. They Just Lost.

Emily Curiel/The Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service/Getty Reproductive rights advocates in Missouri have beaten back a last-ditch effort by...

11.09.2024 30

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