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Hero of 2025: Kara Swisher

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The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective list, giving our reporters a chance to write about something that brought joy, discontent, or curiosity. Happy holidays. There are few pop culture stereotypes I despise more than the one about female reporters having […]

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This Confusing Supreme Court Case Could Reshape Oversight of Crisis Pregnancy Centers

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Even if you have no idea what a crisis pregnancy center is, the donor website for the First Choice Women’s Resource Centers chain in northeastern New Jersey offers plenty of clues: Prominent logos for the anti-abortion groups Heartbeat International and CareNet. A home page banner proclaiming “Sanctity of Human Life Sunday 2026.” An agreement for […]

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This Confusing Supreme Court Case Could Reshape Oversight of Crisis Pregnancy Centers

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Even if you have no idea what a crisis pregnancy center is, the donor website for the First Choice Women’s Resource Centers chain in northeastern New Jersey offers plenty of clues: Prominent logos for the anti-abortion groups Heartbeat International and CareNet. A home page banner proclaiming “Sanctity of Human Life Sunday 2026.” An agreement for […]

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South Carolina’s Abortion Bill Is So Extreme Even Anti-Abortion Groups Have Doubts

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Imagine an abortion ban so radical that even leading anti-abortion groups have lined up to denounce it. That’s what abortion “abolitionists” are hoping eventually to unleash on South Carolina, with a key legislative hearing scheduled for Tuesday.  Senate Bill 323, also known as the Unborn Child Protection Act, may be the most draconian abortion legislation […]

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What Tuesday’s Elections Mean for the Future of Abortion Access

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Abortion may not technically be on the ballot in Tuesday’s off-year state elections, but in the post-Roe v. Wade era, abortion is always on the ballot. Since the US Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs ruling that ended the federal right to abortion, statewide elections have become opportunities for reproductive rights supporters and opponents alike to expand […]

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One Woman’s Quest to Reclaim the Ugly History of Black Maternal Health

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A decade or so ago, to help pay the bills, the artist-activist Michelle Browder started giving human-rights tours of Montgomery, Alabama, the city where her family has deep roots. Riding around in a red-and-white trolley, she would delve into the uncomfortable historical truths that many people she encountered either didn’t know about or preferred to […]

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Fiercely Anti-Abortion Judge Has Bowed Out of Blockbuster Mifepristone Case

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In a ruling by turns petulant, defiant, and resigned, a federal judge in Texas who has spent the past three years trying to help conservative groups overturn the Food and Drug Administration’s regulation of the abortion drug mifepristone has bowed out of the case. In a final gift to abortion opponents, US District Judge Matthew […]

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The Surgery That Reveals Everything That’s Wrong With Women’s Health Care

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For decades, the default feminist position on hysterectomy has been skepticism—and with good reason: The history of gynecology is replete with stories of unethical doctors and gruesome experimentation, of deeply ingrained misogyny and horrific racism. But when Hunter College medical sociologist Andréa Becker started doing research on hysterectomies in 2019, she discovered that many women […]

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Just Killed the “Zombie” Abortion Law

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When Wisconsin voters flipped the ideological balance of the state’s supreme court in 2023, abortion was very much on their minds. Specifically, abortion opponents were arguing that with the demise of Roe v Wade the year before, the state’s 1849 near-total abortion ban—invalidated by Roe but never overturned by lawmakers, so still technically on the […]

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The Senate’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Will Create a Disaster for Rural Mothers and Babies

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The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which cleared the Senate Tuesday afternoon and is returning to the House, is generally terrible for families. But women and babies who live in areas that voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump are likely to suffer some of its most sweeping and damaging effects. The historically brutal Medicaid cuts—a staggering $930 […]

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How Viability Limits End Up Criminalizing Pregnancy

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When Karen Thompson became the legal director at Pregnancy Justice a year and a half ago, she was still learning about the reproductive justice issues at the heart of the organization’s mission. But after 20 years focused on the criminal justice system, first at the Innocence Project, then at the ACLU of New Jersey, she […]

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Forget Dobbs—The Personhood Movement Wants Much More

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To hear people in the anti-abortion movement tell it, the idea that human personhood begins at fertilization is as old as the Bible. But as abortion historian Mary Ziegler writes in her latest book, Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction, the legal movement for fetal personhood only dates from the 1960s, when anti-abortion activists […]

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