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It is 103 degrees in October, on the 18th consecutive day of record-breaking heat in the city of Phoenix, and the streets downtown are deserted when an empty white sedan whizzes soundlessly past me, then pulls to the side of the road. I approach the Uber I’ve just called gingerly, …

Former First Lady Michelle Obama joined Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday afternoon in Kalamazoo, Michigan for a get-out-the-vote rally and delivered an impassioned speech to appeal to men who may not feel immediately impacted by GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s anti-women policies as well as …

The Supreme Court will allow Texas to continue enforcing itsban on abortions — including emergency abortionsin hospitals. On Monday, the nation’s highest court declined an appeal from the Biden administration, keeping in place a lower court order that says hospitals cannot be compelled to provide care that would violate Texas’ …

Stevie Nicks has logged on. The icon dropped “The Lighthouse,” a stellar anthem for women’s rights. Co-written withMagnus Birgersson and Vincent Villuis, the track opens with Nicks’ vocals and subtle instrumentation, before unfurling into a full-blown cathartic rocker. “I have my scars/You have yours,” she sings. “Don’t let them take …

At least 210 women faced criminal charges related to pregnancy, abortion, pregnancy loss, or birth in the year after the Supreme Court ended the federal right to abortion, according to a new report from the advocacy group Pregnancy Justice. In most of the cases — 121 of the 210 —the …

Carmen Broesder was watching the presidential debate Tuesday night when she heard something that stopped her cold. As she processed the moment, her phone lit up with messages from friends. “They said when they heard the words, the person they thought of was me,” Broesder tells Rolling Stone. “I felt …

On a Thursday two years ago today, at exactly 10:10 in the morning, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs, the landmark case overruling Roe v. Wade and ending the federal right to abortion. The decision was not necessarily a surprise —almost two months earlier, a leaked draft of …

Two separate, controversial Idaho laws have landed in front of the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court this year: the state’s total ban on abortion, and its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. As he prepared to defend both, Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador (R) sought help from lawyers …

Americans don’t want abortion to be banned. In fact, they barely want it legislated at all: A 2024 poll found that 81 percent of voters don’t want abortion issues to be regulated by the government. Instead, they want the decision to be between a patient and their doctor. That overwhelming …

I n 2016, Ash Williams became pregnant for the first time. Williams wants to be a parent eventually — but he wasn’t ready for a child then. He didn’t know much about what an abortion entailed, and he needed a ride, so he called up a friend who drove him. …