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I’ve Covered Kamala Harris for 20 years. One Thing About Her Has Never Changed.

Mother Jones illustration; Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle/AP; Brandon Bell/Getty The first time I met Kamala Harris, in 2007, I was a...

06.11.2024 20

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Swing States of Anxiety

Supporters arrive for a Kamala Harris campaign event in Atlanta last weekend. Georgia officials say early voting has broken state records. Jacquelyn...

26.10.2024 3

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A Court Just Threw Out Georgia’s Six-Week Abortion Ban

Nearly 75 percent of Georgians—including 62 percent of Republicans—don't want to see abortion criminalized before viability. Krisztian...

01.10.2024 20

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California Sues Catholic Hospital for Denying Emergency Abortion Care

Across the country, one in every six acute-care hospitals is Catholic-run. Jessie Wardarski/AP Many Californians are proud of their state’s...

01.10.2024 7

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Criminalizing Pregnancy: A Record Number of Pregnant Women Were Prosecuted the Year After Dobbs

Senate Republicans blocked a resolution to guarantee emergency access to abortion nationwide. John Locher/AP One night in March of 2023, Amari...

25.09.2024 50

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Florida’s Maternity Homes Made Single Mothers Feel Like “Criminals”

Mother Jones illustration; Getty In the years before the Supreme Court ended the federal right to abortion, Florida’s 55 reproductive health care...

24.09.2024 10

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Report: Florida’s Six-Week Ban Caused the Number of Abortions to Plummet

Abortion-rights advocates march and rally in support of the Yes On 4 campaign in downtown Orlando, Florida, against the six-week ban that will appear...

13.09.2024 3

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Emerge Backed Kamala Harris in 2003. Now It’s Trying to Change the Face of Politics.

Kamala Harris meets with supporters in front of the 24th street BART station while on the campaign trail running for District Attorney in San...

09.09.2024 9

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My Lunch With Kamala’s Mom

Shyamala Gopalan Harris Mother Jones illustration; Courtesy Kamala Harris Campaign Shyamala Gopalan Harris did not believe in coddling. Pay her...

22.08.2024 10

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Kamala Harris Bet on Barack Obama. Now He’s Returning the Favor.

Kamala Harris and Barack Obama in 2012 Paul Chinn/San Francisco Chronicle/AP When Barack Obama takes the stage in Chicago tonight to support the...

21.08.2024 9

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Why Smashing the Administrative State Is a Disaster for Reproductive Rights

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 24: An abortion rights advocate participates in a protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court Building on June 24, 2024 in...

10.07.2024 9

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Abortion Bans Are Also Terrible for Babies

Mother Jones; Getty; Clark Van Der Beken/Unsplash In many ways, the end of Roe v Wade didn’t happen when the US Supreme Court issued its decision...

03.07.2024 20

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The First National Data on Birth Control Post-Dobbs Is Here, and the News Is Not Good

Mother Jones illustration; Getty In the wake of the June 2022 Supreme Court Dobbs decision, as dozens of abortion clinics shut down in states with...

27.06.2024 30

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Supreme Court Upholds Law Disarming Domestic Abusers

Mother Jones; Getty; Ian Hutchinson/Unsplash; Eric Ward/Unsplash Every 16 hours in the US, a woman is gunned down in an act of domestic violence....

21.06.2024 7

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The Supreme Court Just Unanimously Struck Down a Challenge to the Abortion Pill

Mother Jones; Olga Fedorova/SOPA/ZUMA; Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/ZUMA; Justin Rex/AP; Tim Mossholder/Unsplash When far-right activists won their...

14.06.2024 50

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Texas Is Letting a Maternal-Mortality Skeptic Investigate Maternal Mortality

Mother Jones; Jose Luis Magana/AP Just a few years ago, maternal mortality was the rare reproductive justice issue that seemed to transcend...

25.05.2024 20

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The Founder of Mother’s Day Mostly Cared About Her Own Mother

It seems like such a simple idea: a day to honor the women who bring life into the world. But  how do we square the ideal of celebrating and...

11.05.2024 40

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SCOTUS v. Pregnant Patients: Idaho’s Abortion Fight Could Blow Up a “Revolutionary” Health Care Law

Mother Jones; Getty Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in what could end up being its most consequential abortion decision since...

27.04.2024 10

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Emergency Abortion Care Is Before the Supreme Court—and Blue States Should Be Very Worried

Mother Jones illustration; Getty Jaelyn was 19 weeks and five days into a much-wanted pregnancy when the cramping began—slowly at first, then in an...

24.04.2024 30

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How Famine and Starvation Can Affect Generations to Come

Mother Jones; Getty Famine is already happening in parts of Gaza, a top US humanitarian official publicly acknowledged this week for the first time....

13.04.2024 10

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Repro-Rights Advocates Focused on Abortion and Not Pregnancy. That Was a Mistake.

Mother Jones; Getty As the Supreme Court prepares for arguments in a wide-ranging case over the FDA’s regulation of mifepristone, it’s hard to...

26.03.2024 40

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