abortion Archives - The Editorial Board.

Federal judge stops Texas’ abortion vigilante law after dismantling it in written opinion

By Mia Brett / October 8, 2021 /

Robert Pitman is your new favorite person.

Do the Democrats have the incentive to attack not only the court’s conservatives but the court’s legitimacy? It seems so

By John Stoehr / September 27, 2021 /

Let’s hope its polling slump is permanent.

Democrats in the Congress should enshrine abortion into law with even stronger protections

By Mia Brett / September 10, 2021 /

We need abortion rights based on equal protection rather than privacy or free exercise of the rights of physicians.

The Republican Party overplayed its hand in Texas

By Claire Bond Potter / September 9, 2021 /

A new abortion fight will mobilize a Democratic Party that has not foregrounded social policies so dramatically since 1965.

Lawlessness is a feature of the Republican Party, not a bug

By John Stoehr / September 3, 2021 /

The five most conservative justices, and their allies in state legislatures, have devised a model for using a procedure called the “shadow docket” to weaponize lawlessness against court precedents they don’t like.

Abortion is virtually banned in Texas. The upside? Roe still rules for now in the other 49 states

By Mia Brett / September 3, 2021 /

Overturning Roe would have affected national abortion coverage and abortion would have been immediately illegal in 13 states.

By turning law enforcement over to ‘abortion vigilantes,’ Texas uses lawlessness to destabilize equal treatment under law

By John Stoehr / September 2, 2021 /

So far, it has the Supreme Court’s blessing.

Why do the people who desire bans on abortion desire bans on vaccine- and mask-mandates? The connection isn’t ‘freedom’

By John Stoehr / September 1, 2021 /

They accuse pro-choice Americans of being evil as means of covering up the barbarous flesh-eating reality of their larger political project.

Whatever happens to Roe, it will be the consequence of six conservative justices choosing to believe authoritarian lies

By John Stoehr / August 31, 2021 /

If the sanctity of an individual embryo’s life were as important as they say it is, a half-century-old anti-abortion movement would not exist.

Matt Robison interviews the EB’s Mia Brett: A Turning Point on Abortion in America

By John Stoehr / August 31, 2021 /

Abortion vigilantism? Yes.