Abortion Rights
People Are Flooding Sex Educators On TikTok With Questions About Unplanned Pregnancies Since Roe Was Overturned
“When young people don’t have access to comprehensive sex education in schools, they naturally turn to other means, like their peers or the internet.”
Anna Betts
Christian Walker Has Maybe Probably Blown Up His Dad’s Senate Campaign
In a stunning series of tweets, the conservative influencer turned on dad Herschel Walker in dramatic fashion, accusing him of being a deadbeat and a fraud.
David Mack
Here's Why Netflix's "Blonde" Is Being Called Out For Its Portrayal Of Abortion
Planned Parenthood said Blonde is anti-abortion propaganda: "Every pregnancy outcome — especially abortion — should be portrayed sensitively, authentically, and accurately in the media."
Kelly Martinez
32 Things That Have Happened With Abortion Rights Since The Supreme Court Overturned Roe V. Wade 100 Days Ago
Here's what the first 100 days have looked like:
Alexa Lisitza
A Catholic Friar Is Facing Federal Charges For Blocking An Abortion Clinic
Christopher "Fidelis" Moscinski is accused of using five locks to chain the gates of a Planned Parenthood before lying down in front of it to prevent access.
David Mack
Midterm Elections In These Six States Could Change Abortion Access For Millions Of People
“What happens this November could make all of the difference in some of these places.”
Anna Betts
The 2022 Midterms Are A Referendum On Abortion Rights And LGBTQ Freedoms. Here's How To Have Your Say.
These midterm elections hold a lot of weight this year on a wide range of issues, including abortion rights and LGBTQ rights.
Paige Skinner
Arizona Can Enforce A 121-Year-Old Abortion Ban, A Judge Ruled
"By allowing this law to go into effect, Arizona has put the lives of pregnant people and their doctors at risk," the ACLU of Arizona said.
Anna Betts
Chrissy Teigen Said She's Realized She Had A Lifesaving Abortion With Her Third Child And Felt "Silly" That It Took Her "Over A Year" To Understand It Wasn't A Miscarriage
“I told the world we had a miscarriage... I became really frustrated that I didn’t, in the first place, say what it was, and I felt silly that it had taken me over a year to actually understand that we had had an abortion.”
Leyla Mohammed
"I Used A Condom, And It Broke": Jameela Jamil Condemned Republicans' Latest Attack On Abortion Rights
"If we are forcing millions of people into this world, we as a society — whether you are right, whether you are left, whether you are 'pro-life' or not — it doesn't matter. You will all suffer the consequences of a crowded, broken political, healthcare, and education system."
Morgan Sloss
Abortion Bans Are Unpopular With Most Americans, So Some Republican Candidates Are Trying To Walk Back Their Extreme Stances
“It is up to voters to determine if their shifts are genuine or a cynical smoke screen.”
Anna Betts
Lindsey Graham, Who Said He Didn’t Want A National Abortion Ban, Just Introduced One (But Doesn’t Want To Call It That)
After previously saying the issue of abortion should be left to the states, Sen. Lindsey Graham now wants abortions banned in the US after 15 weeks.
David Mack
27 Times The Internet Made Me Lose Faith In Men — Not Humanity, Just Men
It's taking everything in me not to block every man on my contact list.
Daniella Emanuel
Tech Companies Working On Contraception Face A New Landscape After Roe
The Dobbs decision creates windfalls for some and roadblocks for others when it comes to companies working on new fertility tech.
Rae Nudson
A Company Is Being Sued For Selling Location Data That Could Allegedly Be Used To Track People Seeking Abortions
The Federal Trade Commission said it was able to identify a mobile device that visited a clinic in a data sample from the Idaho-based company.
Stephanie K. Baer
Unaccompanied Immigrant Children Who Are Pregnant And In US Custody Are Being Moved Across State Lines To Access Abortion Services
Many immigrant children arrive in the US after fleeing abuse and sexual violence back home.
Adolfo Flores
A Republican Lawmaker’s Viral Video Highlights The Danger Of Nonviable Pregnancies
The video reveals how dangerous pregnancy loss can be as reproductive rights dwindle.
Katie Camero
A Florida Judge Who Denied A Teen Girl An Abortion Because Of Her Grades Was Voted Out Of Office
Voters in Florida ousted two anti-abortion elected officials in separate races on Tuesday.
Clarissa-Jan Lim
A Woman Said She Was Denied An Abortion Even Though Her Fetus Won't Survive
"Basically they said I had to carry my baby to bury my baby," the woman told reporters.
Julia Reinstein
A "Parentless" 16-Year-Old Was Denied An Abortion Because A Court Ruled She's Not "Mature" Enough
The teen "had not established by clear and convincing evidence that she was sufficiently mature to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy," a state appeals court ruled.
Julia Reinstein
Trans Men Talk About Why They Got Abortions
“If I got pregnant, I would not live through that experience.”
Hallie Lieberman
A Republican Lawmaker Said “Not Her Body, Not Her Choice” Before Indiana Passed A Near-Total Abortion Ban
“The body inside of the mom’s body is not her body. Not her body, not her choice,” said Rep. John Jacob, an anti-abortion extremist who wanted to remove exceptions for rape and incest from the bill.
Steffi Cao
Abortion Rights Will Remain Protected In Kansas After Voters Defeated A Proposed Constitutional Amendment
It was the first time that voters have weighed in on the issue since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Stephanie K. Baer
Americans Generally Support Abortion Access, But A Vote In Kansas Has Exposed How Protecting Reproductive Rights Won’t Be That Simple
“People’s opinions on this are really nuanced. How that translates into votes is really complicated.”
Stephanie K. Baer
Add Pregnant People With Cancer To The Ever-Growing List Of Reasons Why Abortion Access Is Essential For Healthcare
"If we value life, let us value all life. Not everyone who is pregnant can carry that pregnancy without compromising their own health."
Alexa Lisitza
Michigan Medical Students Walked Out Of Their White Coat Ceremony In Protest Of An Anti-Abortion Speaker
“This is not simply a disagreement on personal opinion; through our demand we are standing up in solidarity against groups who are trying to take away human rights and restrict medical care."
Ikran Dahir
Khloé Kardashian And Tristan Thompson’s Surrogate Got Pregnant A Month Before His Paternity Scandal Broke After He Allegedly Tried To Convince Maralee Nichols To Get An Abortion
Around the same time that Khloé and Tristan were pushing forward with their surrogacy journey, Tristan was allegedly offering Maralee Nichols $75K to have an abortion.
Stephanie Soteriou
Here’s What It Took For One Woman To Get An Abortion After Her State Made It Illegal At Six Weeks
“I was one [flat] tire away from not being able to make it, one paycheck away from being forced to have a child, and that's scary.”
Stephanie K. Baer
LGBTQ Activists Are Quietly Preparing For A Nightmare: The Supreme Court Undoing Marriage Equality
“It's exhausting to even think about trying to do this again in the environment that we're in now,” one LGBTQ campaigner said.
David Mack
A Top Republican Cast Doubt On The Rape Of A 10-Year-Old Girl Who Had An Abortion. A Suspect Was Just Arrested.
Despite Ohio's Republican attorney general flatly dismissing the story, a suspect has been charged with the girl's rape after reportedly confessing to investigators.
Julia Reinstein
