K rista Harding’s daughter was eight weeks old when that police cruiser pulled behind her on the interstate and hit the lights in September 2019. She called her boss at the Little Caesars in Pinson, Alabama, where she’d just been promoted to manager: I’m going to be a little late, …
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The Florida Supreme Court has cleared the way for a ban on abortions at six weeks gestation — before many women realize they are pregnant — to go into effect. At the same time, the justices on Monday approved a measure to be placed on the ballot this November that, …
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Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas are just asking questions about the Comstock Act, a 150-year-old obscenity law that anti-abortion activists believe could be revived as a national abortion ban. The Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday in Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, a case that …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Since the repeal of Roe V. Wade, the reproductive rights and bodily autonomy of the people of the United States are increasingly under attack. Twenty-one states have either …
Read More »'Degrassi: The Next Generation's' Banned Abortion Episode Changed TV
In 2004, Degrassi: The Next Generation aired what would become their most controversial episode with “Accidents Will Happen,” which premiered in Canada in two parts on January 26 and February 9, 2004. However, the episode would not see the light of day on Degrassi’s U.S. network, The N, for another …
Read More »I Helped Create 'The Daily Show': Now, I'm Fighting for Abortion Access
My first act toward shedding myself of fucks to give was sharing my abortion story on Comedy Central back in 1992. That was the first and last time I was asked to do that on television. That’s when I learned that corporate media, no matter how open-minded, is not a …
Read More »Nebraska Teen Sent to Jail Over Illegal Abortion
A Nebraska teen who enlisted her mother’s help to obtain abortion pills in violation of state law has been sentenced to 90 days in jail. Celeste Burgess was 17 years old and 24 weeks pregnant when she took Mifepristone and Misoprostol that her mother purchased online. In May, the now …
Read More »All-Male State Supreme Court Reconsiders Abortion Ban After Lone Female Justice Retires
“Six weeks is, quite simply, not a reasonable period of time,” the majority held, in an opinion authored by Justice Kaye Hearn. In January, South Carolina’s Supreme Court struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban as unconstitutional. The 3-2 majority explained that, while the state has the authority to impose …
Read More »Demi Lovato Wages War to Protect Reproductive Rights on Protest Single 'Swine'
Demi Lovato stands on the frontlines in the battle for reproductive rights in the music video for the singer’s latest protest single “Swine.” To commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, leaving millions with little to nothing left to shield and protect their bodily autonomy, …
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Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature introduced a package of bills this week to “clarify” the state’s abortion ban, 174 years after it became law. The 1849 ban, which criminalizes abortionin every circumstance, except to save the pregnant person’s life, went back into effect last June after 50 years of obsolescence. …
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