Multiple Colleges Offer Medication Abortion Services. Students Say They Don’t...
Leslie Ortiz, 24, has many of the same responsibilities as plenty of other college students: She’s double majoring in molecular cell biology and physiology and minoring in chemistry at California State...
View ArticleTwo Key Issues to Watch in the Case That Could Upend Abortion Pill Access
Pace yourself this Supreme Court season, folks, as we head into oral argument for two major abortion rights cases before the term ends. First up on Tuesday is FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine,...
View ArticleMedication Abortion Belongs on College Campuses. Schools Need to Step Up.
This story is part of our monthly series, Campus Dispatch. Read the rest of the stories in the series here. Since my graduation from George Washington University last May, a campus movement has gained...
View ArticleMifepristone’s Not-So-Bad Day at the Supreme Court
Who had a bad day at the Supreme Court this morning for oral arguments in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine? Erin Hawley. What had an OK day at the Supreme Court? Mifepristone! In this rapid...
View ArticleAbortion Pills Aren’t Going Away
This piece first appeared in our weekly newsletter, The Fallout. Reading too much into Supreme Court oral arguments is always risky, but after Tuesday’s oral arguments in FDA v. Alliance for...
View ArticleAbortion Ballot Tracker: Where Your State Stands on Codifying Reproductive...
UPDATE, April 2, 2024: This article has been updated to reflect Arizona, Florida, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Abortion wins elections. We saw it last year when Ohio voters enshrined...
View ArticleMaking Sense of the Mess in Florida’s Abortion Access Landscape
This piece first appeared in our weekly newsletter, The Fallout. The Florida Supreme Court on Monday took a page from Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and swept away over 30 years of legal...
View ArticleHow Some DeSantis Judges Decimated Abortion Access in the Southeast
The Florida Supreme Court was busy this week in issuing decisions surrounding bodily autonomy. In twin decisions the court stripped abortion rights from the Florida Constitution—and to no one’s...
View ArticleWhat Is EMTALA and Why Is It Before SCOTUS?
With anti-choice groups like Alliance Defending Freedom complaining to the Supreme Court that the Biden administration is using the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) to force...
View ArticleElie Mystal on Why You Don’t Need to Like SCOTUS Anymore
With Jess out, Elie Mystal, friend of the pod and justice correspondent at the Nation, joins Imani on a supersized episode of the pod this week! They chat about all your favorite and not-so-favorite...
View ArticleHow Abortion Rights and Birth Justice Are ‘Inextricably Linked’
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade nearly two years ago, voters in several states have enshrined abortion rights into their state constitutions via ballot initiatives. In November, people...
View ArticleFetal ‘Personhood’ Is at Stake at SCOTUS
This piece first appeared in our weekly newsletter, The Fallout. Next week, abortion is back before the Supreme Court in a case that pits state-level abortion bans against a federal law requiring...
View ArticleWill SCOTUS Force ER Doctors to Abandon Patients Who Need Abortions?
It’s time for oral arguments in the second abortion case this Supreme Court season, one that Jess and Imani have both written and talked a lot about in the last year. In this week’s episode, they share...
View ArticleIndiana Now Has a Religious Right to Abortion
Earlier this month, a three-judge panel of the Indiana Court of Appeals (which includes an appointee of anti-abortion Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb) unanimously affirmed a lower court ruling preventing...
View ArticleI’m an ER Doctor. If the Supreme Court Upends EMTALA, Patients Will Die.
I am an emergency medicine doctor. My job is to save lives. The destruction of the Emergency Medicine Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) would make this job impossible. EMTALA, which Congress...
View ArticleSCOTUS Signals It Might Slam the Door Shut on Pregnant ER Patients
It was a grim day at the Supreme Court during oral arguments in Idaho v. United States with the fate of Emergency Medicine Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) at stake. Jess and Imani bring you...
View ArticleDo We Have a Constitutional Crisis on Our Hands—Again?
This piece first appeared in our weekly newsletter, The Fallout. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade nearly two years ago, there has been a steady stream of reporting on the medical...
View ArticleWhat You Need to Know About Florida’s Abortion Access Mess
In Florida, conservative lawmakers have relentlessly attacked abortion rights. When the state’s legislative session ended in March, the most significant bill attacking abortion access—SB 476—died...
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At Catholic Universities, Students Fight an Uphill Battle for Reproductive...
This story is part of our monthly series, Campus Dispatch. Read the rest of the stories in the series here. During the first week of the fall semester, Georgetown University students, mostly freshmen,...
View ArticleTexas Lawmakers Won’t Stop Harassing LGBTQ+ Kids
This piece first appeared in our weekly newsletter, The Fallout. Conservative attorneys general ratcheted up their attacks on LGBTQ+ students in a series of lawsuits filed this week designed to block...
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