by Gene Collier The architect of this fresh American madness should take his rightful bows today, deep and from the waist, and it’s not Donald Trump, whose grasp of advanced legal concepts is only that he can’t be restrained by them. Sen. Mitch McConnell is the man of this ...
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 ...
by Parmy Olson About 10 years ago, a story about Target Corp.’s uncanny ability to detect a customer’s pregnancy made waves. An angry man had gone into a Target store in Minneapolis, demanding to speak to a manager and flashing coupons that his teenage daughter had received in the ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has not yet made a final decision on the landmark Roe v. Wade case. However, if the court adopts the draft opinion that was leaked to Politico earlier this week, abortion will likely be outlawed in West Virginia. In the draft opinion, Justice Samuel Alito strikes ...
by Noah Feldman The leaked draft of a majority Supreme Court decision by Justice Samuel Alito overturning Roe v. Wade means several things. First, it indicates that in the justices’ private conference, at least five members of the court voted to reverse the 1973 abortion ...
by Rahim Kurwa Everywhere you look, people seem to be losing rights. Texas’ Senate Bill 8, which its legislators passed last year, was perhaps the most shocking example of this anti-rights wave. It’s one of the most severe restrictions on abortion rights in the United States, ...