Abortion rights advocates fear a new conservative majority on the court may be prepared to overturn or alter landmark Roe decisionThe US supreme court is expected to hear oral arguments on Wednesday in the most important abortion rights case in decades…
Texas doctor protests abortion law by admitting he carried out procedure
Alan Braid writes column for Washington PostTexas law shows fragility of women’s rights, say activistsProtesting a Texas law which outlaws abortion after six weeks of pregnancy and empowers citizens to sue providers and anyone who helps them, a San Ant…
Who says it’s no big deal if the Covid vaccine temporarily disrupts menstrual cycles | Arwa Mahdawi
It’s probably a minor effect of the immune response but it’s not a good look when the medical establishment can’t be bothered to notice Continue reading…
From climate crisis to Brexit, alarmists have been proved right. It’s time to start listening | Arwa Mahdawi
There have been plenty of warnings about environmental catastrophe, food shortages and the erosion of reproductive rights in the US. After the horrors of the last week, it is more urgent than ever to heed themAfter a week of apocalyptic weather and dys…
What would happen if I were pregnant in Texas right now? | Zoe Ettinger
Texas just banned abortion at six weeks. I didn’t even know I was pregnant until five, and that’s earlier than mostFour years ago, when I was a 22-year-old college student in Virginia, I found out I was pregnant. I knew I was late, maybe a bit longer t…
Texas now has abortion ‘bounty hunters’: Sonia Sotomayor’s scathing legal dissent
Justice Sotomayor wrote a blistering dissent on the US supreme court failing to block an extreme Texas abortion law. We are republishing it hereThe court’s order is stunning. Presented with an application to enjoin a flagrantly unconstitutional law eng…