The Dobbs effect is real: Voters, still angry about the Roe overturn, turned out to protect abortion
2 years, 2 months ago

The Dobbs effect is real: Voters, still angry about the Roe overturn, turned out to protect abortion

Salon  

"Is the Dobbs effect fading?" In Michigan, voters approved a state constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights. The Democratic candidate, Josh Shapiro, made protecting abortion rights a central part of his campaign, building on a career of strong support for reproductive health care. Mastriano was a poor candidate in many ways — he participated in the January 6 insurrection — but his stance on abortion rights helped underscore the threats of Republican extremism to voters. His campaign heavily highlighted Oz's remark about how he wanted to enlist "local politicians" to make the abortion choice for women.

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Bad news for Trump: Harris will bring the receipts on Dobbs abortion decision
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Bad news for Trump: Harris will bring the receipts on Dobbs abortion decision

Raw Story  

At 8 a.m. Monday morning, another Trump abortion ban will take effect. Why Trump/Vance efforts to “soften” state forced birth won’t work Faced with opinion polls showing that a strong majority of Americans think Trump overturning Roe v. Wade was a “bad thing,” Trump is now marketing a softer position on abortion, saying that rather than a national ban, it …

California saw a surge in abortions after Dobbs. Providers are bracing for more
8 months, 4 weeks ago

California saw a surge in abortions after Dobbs. Providers are bracing for more

LA Times  

Abortion rights supporters gather near the Texas Capitol after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade on June 24, 2022. After the Supreme Court overturned the Roe vs. Wade decision in 2022, jeopardizing abortion access for millions nationwide, California emerged as a “hot spot” and saw a surge in procedures — an influx probably due in part to out-of-staters …

A State Supreme Court Just Issued the Most Devastating Rebuke of Dobbs Yet
55 years ago

A State Supreme Court Just Issued the Most Devastating Rebuke of Dobbs Yet

Slate  

The Supreme Court’s eradication of the constitutional right to abortion in 2022’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization had an immediate and devastating impact on gender equality in the United States. The majority vehemently rejected Dobbs’ history-only analysis, noting that, until recently, “those interpreting the law” saw women “as not only having fewer legal rights than men but also as …

These Reproductive Rights Cases Could Do More Damage to the Judiciary Than Dobbs
55 years ago

These Reproductive Rights Cases Could Do More Damage to the Judiciary Than Dobbs

Slate  

In key cases on abortion and contraception this past week, conservative judges debated how to approach what seems like a dry and technical issue: who has standing to be in court in the first place. Related From Slate How Dobbs Forces Doctors to Practice Medicine and Law at the Same Time Meanwhile, standing dominated oral argument on Monday when the …

Column: Why Ohio’s abortion vote should scare California
1 year, 2 months ago

Column: Why Ohio’s abortion vote should scare California

LA Times  

Supporters of the Ohio ballot measure guaranteeing the right to an abortion cheer election results Tuesday night. Even after that blow, Ziegler said, most Californians still don’t see abortion as a voting issue because there are no viable candidates, even Republicans, who don’t support access here. So most believe, “who you vote for in California at the state and federal …

The End of Roe Is Having a Chilling Effect on Pregnancy
1 year, 3 months ago

The End of Roe Is Having a Chilling Effect on Pregnancy

Politico  

For young people, the maternal health care crisis is deeply personal. More than a third of young people and 22 percent of young women told us they have personally dealt with or know someone who has “faced constraints when trying to manage a pregnancy-related emergency.” And 23 percent of 18- to 39-year-old women say they have themselves or know someone …

Republicans can’t run away from Dobbs, but it continues to weigh on them
1 year, 6 months ago

Republicans can’t run away from Dobbs, but it continues to weigh on them

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Few people deny that the Supreme …

One year later, the Supreme Court's abortion decision is both scorned and praised
1 year, 6 months ago

One year later, the Supreme Court's abortion decision is both scorned and praised

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In a statement, President Joe Biden pledged to protect access and decried the court's …

The Dobbs Decision Unleashed An Unapologetic Abortion Rights Movement
1 year, 6 months ago

The Dobbs Decision Unleashed An Unapologetic Abortion Rights Movement

Huff Post  

The most common response Jade Hurley used to get when she told people she works at an abortion fund was something along the lines of: “What is that?” Now, a year after the repeal of Roe v. Wade and over a dozen states banning abortion across the country, most reply to Hurley’s line of work with: “Oh, fuck yeah.” The …

Opinion: How the end of Roe turned into a threat to American democracy
1 year, 6 months ago

Opinion: How the end of Roe turned into a threat to American democracy

LA Times  

Marchers in Los Angeles in April demonstrate in favor of keeping the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, which is used in medication abortions. A year ago, when the Supreme Court decided Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. proclaimed the death of abortion rights to be a victory for American democracy, one that might …

Heightened 'pregnancy-related mortality' since Roe v. Wade reversal worries doctors: report
1 year, 6 months ago

Heightened 'pregnancy-related mortality' since Roe v. Wade reversal worries doctors: report

Raw Story  

The U.S. maternal mortality rate has significantly increased since the Supreme Court of the United States overturn Roe v. Wade nearly one year ago, The New Republic reports. In December, Axios reports, President Joe Biden's administration announced "The Supreme Court's Dobbs decision to end the constitutional right to abortion has been 'devastating' to maternal health and widened gaps in care …

The Backlash To Losing Roe v. Wade Is Just Getting Started
2 years, 1 month ago

The Backlash To Losing Roe v. Wade Is Just Getting Started

Huff Post  

The end of national abortion rights threw a wrench in Republican plans for a “red wave” in the midterm elections by turning the advantages of running against an unpopular president’s party on their head. Similarly, significant percentages of Republicans said they were angry about the court’s decision to overturn Roe and supported abortion rights in the TV network exit poll. …

Tapping into ‘a simmering rage’: Democrats’ emphasis on abortion stopped GOP gains
2 years, 2 months ago

Tapping into ‘a simmering rage’: Democrats’ emphasis on abortion stopped GOP gains

LA Times  

This summer, in the weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, more than three-quarters of a million residents of Michigan signed petitions to put a measure on the ballot to add abortion rights to the state constitution. After the Supreme Court’s decision in the abortion case Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, “we saw increased self-report of …

The Midterms Are About Who Controls Your Body
2 years, 2 months ago

The Midterms Are About Who Controls Your Body

Slate  

No matter who we are or where we live, we all traverse this earth in the sack of bones and blood we call a body—our first and forever possession, the vessel we must inhabit until we die. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, Americans have lived with this dehumanizing, patchwork system of laws under which a …

Don’t bail on abortion.
2 years, 2 months ago

Don’t bail on abortion.

Slate  

In his majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson overturning Roe v. Wade, Justice Samuel Alito noted that there was no place for abortion protections in the Constitution. With great satisfaction in the wake of this search, Alito determined conclusively that: “The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision.” As Jill …

Dobbs was a game changer: Democrats eye abortion as key to midterm success
2 years, 4 months ago

Dobbs was a game changer: Democrats eye abortion as key to midterm success

Salon  

Weeks after a draft of Justice Samuel Alito's decision overturning abortion rights leaked in May, an extremely low turnout election in Texas' Rio Grande Valley served as a grand indicator of a massive red wave. Then the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood cases affirming a right to abortion in the …

Op-Ed: Roe’s gone, but the abortion wars just keep escalating
2 years, 5 months ago

Op-Ed: Roe’s gone, but the abortion wars just keep escalating

LA Times  

Yard signs for and against the Kansas ballot measure that would amend the state Constitution so that legislators could further restrict or ban abortion. Abortion is legal in Kansas because the state Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that the Kansas Constitution protects every person’s right to personal autonomy, including the decision to terminate a pregnancy. We are just beginning to …

Column: The GOP may rue the day Roe was overturned
2 years, 6 months ago

Column: The GOP may rue the day Roe was overturned

LA Times  

In overturning Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court delivered the right’s biggest single victory ever and it may spell the end of the conservative movement as we’ve known it. While nearly everyone invoked the “sanctity of life,” as a policy matter, many argued merely for overturning Roe either to fix a jurisprudential error or to send the issue back to …

Opinion: The aftershocks of America’s abortion earthquake will be felt for decades
2 years, 6 months ago

Opinion: The aftershocks of America’s abortion earthquake will be felt for decades

CNN  

CNN — Following the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, CNN Opinion asked a group of contributors to weigh in on the cultural, legal and political ramifications of this monumental legal opinion undoing nearly 50 years of federal abortion protection. Erika Bachiochi: Our feminist foremothers would be proud of this decision Courtesy of Erika Bachioci Much of …

Column: A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Supreme Court decision
2 years, 6 months ago

Column: A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Supreme Court decision

LA Times  

The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is a double disaster. It is another deep distortion to say, as the Dobbs opinion does, that Roe, and the later decision Planned Parenthood vs. Casey, inadequately protected “potential life.” Both decisions placed substantial weight — many would argue excessive weight — on fetal safeguards. Alito derides Casey’s admittedly …

How States Will Target Pregnant People Now That Roe Has Fallen
2 years, 6 months ago

How States Will Target Pregnant People Now That Roe Has Fallen

Slate  

This story was produced in partnership with the Garrison Project, an independent, nonpartisan organization addressing the crisis of mass incarceration and policing. The study, which was published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that the confusing and threatening legal landscape created by the law had “a chilling effect on a broad range of health care professionals, …

The Supreme Court’s Next Target Is Marriage Equality. It Won’t Be the Last.
2 years, 6 months ago

The Supreme Court’s Next Target Is Marriage Equality. It Won’t Be the Last.

Slate  

The Supreme Court’s decision on Friday overruling Roe v. Wade is a devastating blow to individual autonomy and women’s equality, a horrific assault on liberty that will inflict unspeakable suffering and death in the states that are already criminalizing abortion. In Dobbs, though, Justice Sam Alito flatly rejected this vision of ever-evolving liberty: For the court to recognize unenumerated rights, …

Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade with Dobbs decision
2 years, 6 months ago

Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade with Dobbs decision

Salon  

The conservative majority of the Supreme Court overturned the landmark precedent on abortion rights on Friday, voting to strike down the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion nationwide. "The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion," Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion, a draft of which was leaked to much uproar months ago. During the proceeding, …

Dobbs: Conservative justices seized the moment and delivered the opinion they’d long promised
2 years, 6 months ago

Dobbs: Conservative justices seized the moment and delivered the opinion they’d long promised

CNN  

CNN — The five-justice Supreme Court bloc that overturned a half century of women’s abortion rights on Friday had coalesced less than two years. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote as the majority jettisoned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that made abortion legal nationwide. “Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had …

Barrett, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch will decide the future of Roe.
3 years, 5 months ago

Barrett, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch will decide the future of Roe.

Slate  

One of the most interesting fissures that has opened up within the conservative legal movement in recent years has been between mainstream conservative lawyers and the growing performance artist faction of the lawyers for the Trump base. Soon, the conservative justices themselves will have to pick which side of the battle they are on: With the filing last week of …

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