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Perhaps what was most significant in the debate at the US Supreme Court Wednesday morning, during oral arguments in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South...
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,...
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...
Seven young transgender patients, providers of LGBTQ healthcare, and the advocacy organization PFLAG sued President Donald Trump and his...
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...
The anti-abortion movement has launched a pressure campaign urging President Donald Trump’s administration to take steps toward a nationwide ban on...
A few hours after taking the Oath of Office on Monday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order purporting to redefine “male” and...
Upon assuming the presidency Monday, Donald Trump is expected to immediately move to end the federal government’s recognition of transgender people,...
During his campaign, incoming president Donald Trump did everything possible to muddy his record on abortion and reproductive healthcare. He...
Countless words have been spilled—including in Mother Jones—on the topic of medical care for transgender youth. The attention, in part, comes from...
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...
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...
Trans-rights supporters rally outside the US Supreme Court on Wednesday. Angelina Katsanis/Politico/AP After the Supreme Court ruled nine years ago...
Mother Jones illustration; Getty In 2016, when Tennessee OBGYN Susan Lacy learned she would be providing gender-affirming care to transgender...
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...
Ira L. Black/Corbis/Getty In a victory for abortion rights advocates, New Yorkers just voted to enshrine extensive anti-discrimination protections...
Daniel Knighton/Getty In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, GOP consultants were fighting over strategy: Would going all-in on...
Protesters rally in Scottsdale after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled than an 1864 abortion ban was enforceable. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty In...
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...
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...
Vice President Kamala Harris interviewed by members of the National Association of Black Journalists on Tuesday. Jacquelyn Martin/AP Vice President...
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...
Protesters supporting abortion rights chant outside the Nebraska legislative chamber in May 2023. Kenneth Ferriera/Lincoln Journal Star/AP More...
Former Trump White House official John McEntee. Evan Vucci/AP When Project 2025 staffer and former Trump White House personnel chief John McEntee...
Emily Curiel/The Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service/Getty Reproductive rights advocates in Missouri have beaten back a last-ditch effort by...