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Nathan Posner / Anadolu Agency / Getty What Kansas Means for the Midterms
The surprise defeat of a ballot measure may hold lessons for November and abortion access in other states.
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Ron Haviv / VII / Redux The Kansas Abortion Shocker
The defeat of an anti-abortion ballot measure could buoy Democratic hopes for an outraged electorate this fall.
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Eve Arnold / Magnum Photos American Motherhood
My pregnancies could have killed me, but at least I chose them.
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Charlie Riedel / AP Abortion Is Literally on the Ballot in Kansas
Tuesday’s statewide referendum will give Democrats an early hint of just how much the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision will motivate their base this fall.
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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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Getty; The Atlantic A Court Without Precedent
The judiciary is supposed to be informed by historical memory, and guided by more than its members’ whims.
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The Atlantic The Myth That America’s Abortion Laws Are More Permissive Than Europe’s
By making a false comparison, GOP apparatchiks hope to cushion the political fallout of Roe’s demise.
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Brandon Bell / Getty The Opening for Democrats on Abortion
Senate Democrats should take their cues from the House.
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GraphicaArtis / Getty; The Atlantic This Court Has Revealed Conservative Originalism to Be a Hollow Shell
The Supreme Court’s right-wing justices claim to be originalists, but then they pick and choose the history that fits their ideological preferences.
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Brandon Bell / Getty The Fate of States’ Rights After Roe
It’s become clear that the anti-abortion movement won’t sit idly by while states enact the abortion policies their residents want.
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The Atlantic What Are Abortion Code Words Even For?
‘I’ll take you camping’ and the limits of online activism
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Samuel Corum / AFP / Getty Local Prosecutors Can’t Protect Abortion Rights
Some district attorneys in conservative states have promised not to bring charges post-Dobbs.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty The Hawley-Bridges Exchange Was Not Constructive
Plus: what Democrats should do about abortion now
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic; Getty The Liberals Threatening to Pick Up and Leave
How abortion could scramble American geography
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The Atlantic; Bloomberg / Getty; Oleksandr Khymchenko / … The Harshest Abortion Restrictions Are Yet to Come
The pro-life movement is now focused on three major strategies at the state level.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty Make Birth Free
It’s time the pro-life movement chose life.
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Thomas J. O'Halloran / Library of Congress Dobbs Is No Brown v. Board of Education
Conservatives think they are righting a historical wrong, but the two decisions represent entirely different approaches to the law.
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The Atlantic; Dianingsih Miasari / Getty The Vasectomy Influencers
Doctors who have spent their careers promoting vasectomies are finding themselves thrust into the spotlight.
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The Atlantic; Reuters Should Americans Have a Right to Absolute Privacy?
Nine readers on the constitutional amendment they would—or would not—write.
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Tyler Golden / Netflix; Nick Wall / Searchlight; … The Older Woman Comes of Age
In a new comedy, Emma Thompson plays a woman who finally sees her body, the actor says, “as her home.” Her victory, in a post-Roe world, takes on the dimensions of tragedy.
