Due to the Hyde Amendment, federal funds can’t be used to pay for an abortion except in cases of rape or incest. But some states, like Iowa, won’t even do that.
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Abortion Doesn’t Have to Be Illegal to Be Out of Reach
Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, and several other states are trying to create insurmountable obstacles for women seeking abortions.
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Strategies for a Post-Roe America—and for Post-Roe American Women
An interview with Robin Marty
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Reproductive Rights at Risk With or Without Roe
In much of the country, access to abortion has already been blocked by state governments, especially for women in poverty. And if Roe goes, access will be scarcer still.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Planned Parenthood — the New Election-Day Giant
The organization’s advocacy arm offers thousands of newly politically energized volunteers the resources and training to become seasoned activists. What does that mean for the abortion-rights movement—and the left?
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‘Essure Problems’: A Contraceptive Device Creates an E-Sisterhood of Suffering
Women banded together to force a pharmaceutical company to reckon with the devastating side effects of its controversial product.
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Ireland’s Path to Legalizing Abortion
At a time when the United States may render it illegal
Posted inLaw and Justice
What Happens If the Trumpified Supremes Overturn Roe and Obergefell
A state-by-state breakdown of where abortion and same-sex marriage would remain legal—and where they wouldn’t
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Trump Launches Full-Scale Attack on Abortion Access
Once Donald Trump claimed he would keep abortion legal if he became president. “I am pro-choice in every respect,” the real-estate developer said in a 1999 NBC interview. What a difference 20 years makes. With a willing Republican Congress, President Trump has moved to obliterate abortion access at every turn. Last week, the Senate Appropriations […]
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How Democratic Socialists Helped Propel Abortion Funds to Record Fundraising Levels
And focused on places—like Mississippi—where funding for abortions is hard to find