It is a grim coincidence that the same week that HBO premieres the The Janes — a documentary about the young women who established an underground network to provide women with affordable and safe abortion care in the years before Roe v. Wade — the current Supreme Court may actually …
Read More »Ted Cruz and Fox News Are Desperate to Convince America That Conservatives Are the Real Victims in the War on Abortion
Fox News hosts and Republican politicians have spent the past year plus downplaying the attack on the Capitol last Jan. 6, a familiar refrain being that the breach of Congress that resulted in five deaths and dozens of injuries was a “peaceful protest.” The same conservative hosts and politicians have …
Read More »'SNL' Cold Open Time Travels to the 13th Century to Tackle Abortion Rights
Saturday Night Live traveled back in time to the 13th century to mock Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s perspective on abortion rights. The sketch comes just days after a draft opinion on Roe v. Wade was leaked, causing panic that legalized abortion could come to an end. In the opening …
Read More »Olivia Rodrigo on Abortion Rights: 'Our Bodies Should Never Be in the Hands of Politicians'
Olivia Rodrigo is the latest artist to protest the Supreme Court potentially overturning Roe vs. Wade and limiting abortion rights, with the singer addressing the situation during her concert Wednesday in Washington, D.C. “Because we’re in D.C., I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to say how heartbroken I am over …
Read More »'This Decision Will Spiral Into Lethal Situations': Halsey Calls to Protect Abortion Rights
Halsey is speaking up for a woman’s right to choose following Politico‘s leak last night of theSupreme Court’sdraft opinionto overturnRoe v. Wade. In an impassioned post on social media, Halsey encouraged her followers to take action. “This is one of the most significant events we will witness in our lifetimes,” …
Read More »Republicans Are Calling the Roe Leak an 'Insurrection'
Republicans — the party that decided it was pretty much fine that a violent mob stormed the Capitol to try to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss — are clutching all of their pearls over the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion that overturns Roe v. Wade. Indeed, in …
Read More »The Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade Plan Would Condemn Women to Second-Class Citizenship
Today, abortion is still legal everywhere in the country. However, it appears that won’t be true for long. Last night, Politico published an explosive leak of the draft opinion of Dobbs v. Jackson Woman’s Health, the abortion case before the Supreme Court this term. This virtually unprecedented publication of a …
Read More »Phoebe Bridgers Speaks Out About Her Abortion: 'Everyone Deserves That Kind of Access'
Following Politico‘s leak of the Supreme Court‘s draft opinion to overturn Roe vs. Wade, Phoebe Bridgers has spoken out about her own experience. “I had an abortion in October of last year while I was on tour,” Bridgers said in her Instagram story. “I went to Planned Parenthood, where they …
Read More »The Supreme Court's 'Shadow Docket' Is Even Shadier than It Sounds
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for a business-friendly and anti-environment Trump-era regulation. That this conservative Supreme Court ruled in this way is par for the course. But what was somewhat unusual about the ruling was that the court used what is called its “shadow docket” to …
Read More »Ketanji Brown Jackson Becomes First Black Woman Confirmed to the Supreme Court
Ketanji Brown Jackson will become the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. The Senate on Thursday voted to confirm President Biden’s pick to replace the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. The 53-47 vote went as expected, with all 50 Democrats voting to confirm Jackson, along with three Republicans: …
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