The Trump/McConnell court dismantling rights When Donald Trump was in office, he and Mitch McConnell made three lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court. McConnell went so far as to defy Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish — that the next president appoint her replacement — by packing ...
Will history repeat without Roe v. Wade? In 1944-45, Helen Cooper was a first-year teacher in Cincinnati when she told her seventh-graders their classmate had died from a “botched up” abortion. My mother related the story in a letter to the Cincinnati Post on Dec. 30, 1985: “Our ...
by Rob Okun Long before a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion revealed that by summer Roe v. Wade will likely be overturned, only pregnant people bore the burden of pregnancy — not just physically, but also financially. “Impregnators” have always had the choice to walk away. Sure, ...
by Robin Abcarian Last week, I got an earful from readers who were angry that I defended peaceful protests at the homes of three conservative Supreme Court justices, who with their conservative brethren, appear to be on the verge of overturning Roe v. Wade. Some said I might feel ...
by Joan Steinau Lester CONTENT WARNING: This commentary contains graphic descriptions of illegal abortion procedures. There is a huge difference between illegal and legal abortions. I know. I had one of each. In 1960 when I was 19 and living with my boyfriend, a medical resident at ...
There’s a sort of … irony? … bittersweetness? … to talking about the almost certain death of Roe v. Wade on Mother’s Day. In part because the increasingly restrictive anti-abortion laws proliferating in state legislatures — including our own — are so focused on the unborn that ...