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Illustration by The Atlantic Abortion Restrictions Targeted at Minors Never End There
An Idaho law centered on residents under 18 may make justifying travel restrictions for all easier down the line.
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Evelyn Hockstein / Reuters / Redux The Justices Pass on an Abortion-Pill Ban
Until they hear a better case.
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Reginald Mathalone / NurPhoto / AP The Texas Abortion-Pill Ruling Signals Pro-Lifers’ Next Push
Get used to hearing a lot more about the Comstock Act.
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic; Getty; Library of … Roe Was Never Roe After All
The landmark decision never gave women the rights that people wanted to believe it did.
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Roberto Schmidt / AFP / Getty Why Direct Democracy Is Proving So Powerful for Protecting Abortion Rights
Ballot initiatives—not party politics—are allowing new majorities to emerge in support of more lenient abortion policies.
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Bettmann / Getty When Fetal Rights Are More Important Than Democracy
After Roe, the anti-abortion movement faces a new opponent: popular opinion.
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Luca Cserna / Getty Why Exceptions for the Life of the Mother Have Disappeared
The absence of these exemptions is a sign of the anti-abortion-rights movement’s distrust of women and the medical establishment.
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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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Getty; The Atlantic The Conservatives Aren’t Just Ending Roe—They’re Delighting in It
This is the work of the Supreme Court’s emboldened, radical majority.
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Kim Kielhofner There’s No Knowing What Will Happen When Roe Falls
At the state level, countless factors will converge to produce unpredictable results.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Conservative Justices Don’t Seem Too Worried About the Court’s Legitimacy
Fears about the Supreme Court’s public reputation used to have a moderating influence—but that may not be the case any longer.
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Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post / Getty The Court Invites an Era of Constitutional Chaos
With its decision on S.B. 8, the Court is signaling that other states are welcome to imitate Texas’s strategy for eviscerating long-held legal protections.
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Drew Angerer / Getty; Win McNamee / Getty The End of Roe
Today’s oral argument signaled that the Court is poised to reverse Roe v. Wade outright.
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Henrik Sorensen / Getty Whatever Happened to the Exceptions for Rape and Incest?
New abortion bans are stricter than ever before.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Anti-abortion Movement Will Win Even If It Loses
The Supreme Court seemed skeptical of Texas’s new law, but that doesn’t mean Roe will stand.
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Getty ; The Atlantic The Justices Are Telling Us What They Think About Roe v. Wade
A majority on the Supreme Court appears ready to strike down the landmark decision—but they’re not prepared for the ensuing havoc.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Deviousness of Texas’s New Abortion Law
The statute is the culmination of a decades-long strategy to end abortion without actually banning abortion.
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Alex Wong / Getty The Abortion Fight Has Never Been About Just Roe v. Wade
Anti-abortion-rights activists have turned their arguments away from protecting democracy and toward maximizing protection for fetal life.
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Brynn Anderson / AP / The Atlantic How Raphael Warnock Came to Be an Abortion-Rights Outlier
Religious, pro-abortion-rights voices were not always so rare.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Secret Code of the Amy Coney Barrett Hearing
Pay attention to phrases such as settled law and stare decisis, and a whole other layer of meaning will come to the fore.
