When the police department comes to your home to seize five fetuses you’re storing in a refrigerator, you’ve got some explaining to do. On Tuesday, anti-abortion rights activist Lauren Handy attempted to do just that. Handy, the director of activism at the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising group, says she contacted the …
Read More »
What if the Supreme Court approved a new kind of weapon in the culture wars but only one side used it? With Idaho last week becoming the second state to pass a bounty-style abortion ban, it seems this is exactly what’s happening. Red states are lining up to copy the …
Read More »
Police in Washington, D.C. have discovered five fetuses in the home of an anti-abortion activist, according to a statement the Metropolitan Police provided Rolling Stone on Thursday. On Wednesday, Mar. 30, around 12:30 pm, the statement said, police responded to a tip about “potential bio-hazard material” at a house in …
Read More »
Back in 1966 — seven years before the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade — Mississippi was the first state in the nation to legalize abortion for victims of rape. Up until the early 1980s, when state legislators embarked on a campaign to shutter them via a series of increasingly …
Read More »
A judge has issued a temporary restraining order against Texas Right to Life, a conservative anti-abortion group, preventing it from suing Planned Parenthood abortion providers under a newly implemented restrictive abortion law signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. With the new law, SB 8, which went into effect this past …
Read More »
Wednesday night, after many people on the East Coast had already gone to sleep, the Supreme Court issued a one-paragraph order that told Texas it could ban almost all abortions in the state. In a mere twelve sentences, the Court dealt a near-deathblow to the most contentious right in constitutional …
Read More »
Tim Heidecker unveiled a blunt and brutal new song, “To the Men,” addressed to the state legislators attempting to restrict or outright ban abortion. The song is available on Heidecker’s Bandcamp with all proceeds going to the Yellow Hammer Fund, which provides funding for people seeking care at Alabama’s three …
Read More »