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HBO What a Story of 1970s Abortion Activism Can Teach Us Today
For the Jane Collective, organizing safe abortions in pre-Roe America didn’t just serve people in need—it also protected a more hopeful future.
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Evelyn Hockstein / Reuters The Domino Effects of New Anti-abortion Laws
Plus: Thomas Chatterton Williams on abolishing the fiction of racial difference, and reader views on humor in the workplace
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Caitlin Ochs / Reuters The Abortion Pill Can Be Used Later Than the FDA Says
The medication is approved until week 10 of pregnancy in the U.S. But the WHO says it can be safely used until 12 weeks, and activists have used it even later.
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The Atlantic Why I’m Talking About My Abortion
I’ve never regretted it, and other women need the choice that I had.
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New York Daily News / Getty Roe Is the New Prohibition
The pro-life movement needs to know that such culture wars result not in outright victory for one side but in reaction and compromise.
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Peter Zay / Anadolu Agency / Getty Photos: Protests Against the Overturning of Roe
Images of protest from Houston, Atlanta, Boston, Seattle, Denver, Raleigh, St. Louis, Portland, New York, Nashville, and many other locations
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Olivier Douliery / AFP / Getty America Is About to See Just How Pro-life Republicans Actually Are
After the fall of Roe, some abortion opponents think it’s time to focus on expanding America’s social safety net. Will the rest of their movement join them?
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Colby Deal / Magnum Considering Roe v. Wade, Letters to the Black Body
A poem for Saturday
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The Atlantic; Getty The Constitution Is Whatever the Right Wing Says It Is
The Supreme Court majority’s undead constitutionalism is transforming right-wing media tropes into law.
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Abortion-rights and anti-abortion-rights activists in front of the … They Really Did It
The Supreme Court’s conservatives finally felt safe to do what they wanted to do.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty The Pro-life Movement’s Work Is Just Beginning
Now is the time for gratitude and profound humility about what comes after Roe.
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The Atlantic; Getty If the Supreme Court Can Reverse Roe, It Can Reverse Anything
No one should get used to their rights.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic Without Choice
A poem consisting of many voices
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H. Armstrong Roberts / Classicstock / Getty What My Mom Told Me About America Before Roe
Erica Jong celebrated women who wouldn’t settle for less than freedom and equality. Now those things I took for granted are on the line.
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Rory Doyle / Reuters; The Atlantic What It’s Like at an Abortion Clinic in Mississippi Right Now
“What kind of loopholes will we be able to jump through, that we’re not putting either ourselves or the women at risk?”
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The Atlantic The Right to Become a Parent Is Now at Risk Too
The courts used to understand that Roe stood not so much for the choice to end a pregnancy as for the choice of whether to end one.
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Bob Riha / Getty; The Atlantic My Religion Makes Me Pro-abortion
Many of us working to protect access to abortion are doing so because of our faith, not in spite of it.
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Getty How to Save Women’s Lives After Roe
A federal law exists that could protect women having life-threatening pregnancy complications—but only if the Biden administration decides to use it.
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Jenn Ackerman / The New York Times / … The Most Important Study in the Abortion Debate
Researchers rigorously tested the persistent notion that abortion wounds the women who seek it.
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Courtesy of Matthew Walther; The Atlantic Why My Parents Chose Life
Only once, during my teenage years, did I ever ask my mother whether she had considered having an abortion.
