By Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana (ProPublica), CNN.com, November 3,2024 Editor’s note: This story was originally published by ProPublica. Candace Fails screamed for someone in the Texas hospital to help her pregnant daughter. “Do something,” she pleaded, on the morning of Oct. 29, 2023. Nevaeh Crain was crying in pain, too weak to walk, blood
By Liam Reilly and Brian Stelter, CNN.com, October 18, 2024. “To keep it simple for the State of Florida: it’s the First Amendment, stupid.” That’s what a federal judge wrote Thursday as he sided with local TV stations in an extraordinary dispute over a pro-abortion rights television ad. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker of the Northern District
By Rich Barlow, Boston Globe, July 30, 2024. When it comes to abortion, Americans pause our intolerance of nuance. Three-quarters of my fellow Catholics, recognizing that unborn life is still life, say abortion should be illegal in some cases but legal in others. JD Vance’s opposition to abortion in cases of rape or incest aligns
By Renėe Graham, Globe Columnist, Boston Globe, April 10, 2024. Donald Trump wants to have it both ways. When he isn’t warning of a “bloodbath’’ if he loses November’s presidential election or dehumanizing migrants with slurs plucked from fascism’s dictionary, Trump is patting himself on the back for helping to unsettle nearly 50 years of
By Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak, The New York Times, December 15, 2023. On Feb. 10 last year, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. showed his eight colleagues how he intended to uproot the constitutional right to abortion. At 11:16 a.m., his clerk circulated a 98-page draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. After
By Mary Ziegler, CNN.com, December 11, 2023. In a court in Harris County, Texas, something remarkable happened this week: A woman and her husband asked a judge for an emergency order granting her permission to end a pregnancy. Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two, had learned that the child she was carrying had full
By Kimberly Atkins Stohr, The Boston Globe, April 11, 2023 Judge’s abortion pill order gives the conservative, antiabortion extremists’ game away: There was nothing constitutionally principled about the overturning of Roe v. Wade. It was an outcome-driven ruling designed not only to legislate abortion access from the bench but to open the doors wide for
By Erika Bliss, Joan Fleischman and Michele Gomez, New York Times, January 22, 2023. Drs. Bliss, Fleishman and Gomez are co-founders of the My Abortion Network and primary care doctors who provide abortions as part of their primary care practices. Jewel is a student in her early 20s who lives in Texas. When her doctor
Lindsey Graham’s national abortion bill exposes a growing fracture in the antiabortion movement about what to do now, after the demise of Roe v. Wade. By Mary Ziegler Boston Globe September 18, 2022 With the head of the Susan B. Anthony List, a prominent antiabortion group, at his side, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina