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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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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.
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Alex Wong / Getty; The Atlantic What Comes After Roe?
Two Atlantic writers on the future of abortion access in America
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Adam Maida The Coming Rise of Abortion as a Crime
In places where abortion is now illegal, a range of pregnancy losses could be subject to state scrutiny.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Where France Differs on Abortion
The French and Americans once saw eye to eye on reproductive rights. Today, not so much.
