Melissa Gira Grant Policing Womanhood For groups like Alliance Defending Freedom, the erosion of abortion rights and trans rights are complementary pathways to building a Christian nation. May 15, 2022
Elizabeth A. Reese Unsteady Ground Native people have known for a long time that in this country, rights—whether to remain, to pray, to vote, or even to live—are impermanent and fickle things, subject to revision by those in power. May 14, 2022
Catherine Coleman Flowers Our Lives in Their Hands If state governments truly cared about the lives of poor women or our children, they wouldn’t poison our water and pollute our air. They can’t be trusted with our bodies. May 13, 2022
Sherrilyn Ifill Stealing the Crown Jewels Justice Alito purports to place the future of abortion in the hands of women voters—despite abetting the disenfranchisement of Black and Latina women. May 12, 2022
Sue Halpern Before the Fall As evangelicals came into the GOP tent, Republican voters and politicians traded women’s bodies for political power. May 11, 2022
Meaghan Winter Weak Protagonists While purporting to be the party of reproductive rights, Democrats have consistently failed to take a strong stance on abortion. Can they still stand up to minority rule? May 10, 2022
Annette Gordon-Reed Uprooting Rights The draft opinion looks back longingly to a nineteenth-century understanding of who was in control and whose lives mattered. May 9, 2022
Charlotte Shane ‘Can You Describe This?’ Every week that I handle calls on the abortion fund’s hotline is a week spent confronting the mundanity of the struggle for dignity. May 8, 2022
Rachel Pearson Intentions For medical practitioners in Texas, even an imagined act can be illegal. May 8, 2022
Anne Enright A Cruel Vote Can you imagine what it is like to put your mark on a paper ballot that asks you to tease out the issue of a raped child’s inconvenient ability to end her own life? May 8, 2022
David Cole A Heedless Majority In voting to overturn Roe, the Trump-appointed justices on the Supreme Court have proven themselves to be truly radical. May 7, 2022
Clair Wills A Lesson from Ireland Decades of forced birth and coerced adoption convinced the Irish people to lift a state ban on abortion. Will Americans learn the hard way, too? May 6, 2022
Christine Henneberg Aspirations As an abortion provider, what I give my patients is not just a procedure but the space to make their own decisions about their bodies. May 5, 2022
Liza Batkin Deceit in Plain Sight Justice Alito’s draft opinion is a power grab, steeped in the language of conservative and religious antiabortion advocates. May 5, 2022
