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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic We Are Not Prepared for the Coming Surge of Babies
The post-Roe rise in births in the U.S. will be concentrated in some of the worst states for infant and maternal health. Plans to improve these outcomes are staggeringly thin.
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Getty / The Atlantic My Family Oversimplified My Brother’s Adoption Story
Believing that your sibling was “almost aborted” has a way of crystallizing one’s convictions.
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Roberto Schmidt / AFP / Getty Why Direct Democracy Is Proving So Powerful for Protecting Abortion Rights
Ballot initiatives—not party politics—are allowing new majorities to emerge in support of more lenient abortion policies.
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Dustin Franz / Bloomberg / Getty How Abortion Defined the 2022 Midterms
Where Dr. Oz stumbled, John Fetterman only had to say Roe v. Wade. And so it went across the nation.
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Getty; The Atlantic Book-Industry Activists Should Be Careful What They Wish For
The abortion debate will not be resolved by either side declaring the other illegitimate.
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Dietsch / Getty The Anti-abortion Movement’s New Distrust of Democracy
“It was never going to be the case that if voters wanted abortion to be legal, the movement would be comfortable with that,” Mary Ziegler says.
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Todd Kirkland / Getty; The Atlantic Herschel Walker Is Demonstrating the New Law of Politics
Scandals once sank campaigns. Now, for many voters, winning isn’t everything—it’s the only thing.
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Bettmann / Getty When Fetal Rights Are More Important Than Democracy
After Roe, the anti-abortion movement faces a new opponent: popular opinion.
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Drew Angerer / Getty The Constitutional Case Against a Federal Abortion Ban
Plus: A proposal for rethinking early-childhood education on gender
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Craig Ruttle / Redux Old Anti-abortion Laws Are Taking on Unintended Meanings
Even where the words remain the same, a shifting political culture has changed the impact of suddenly revived statutes.
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic The Other Abortion Pill
In the U.S., medication abortion usually consists of two drugs. One of them has always mattered more.
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Drew Angerer / Getty Why This Election Is So Weird
Instead of offering voters contrasting solutions to the same problems, the two parties are highlighting entirely different issues.
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Apple TV+; Taro Yamasaki / FX; Joanne Imperio … The Wrath of a Woman Without Any Options
Television this summer has been preoccupied with a timely question: How far will women go when systems fail them?
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Tyler Comrie/The Atlantic; Alamy The Constitutional Flaw That’s Killing American Democracy
The Constitution doesn’t have to be something we merely inherit; it could be something we can change ourselves—starting with rewriting the too-stringent rules for making such changes.
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Nathan Howard / Getty Why Freedom of Speech Is the Next Abortion Fight
A legal battle in Mississippi will test whether states can criminalize those who merely provide information.
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Illustration by Alex Cochran The Problem With Companies Promising to Pay for Abortion Travel
The benevolence of employers is a terribly shaky safety net.
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FPG / Getty; Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic How Should Feminists Have Sex Now?
A new memoir on the unfinished sexual revolution explores the difficulty of enacting one’s political beliefs in intimate spaces.
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John J. Custer The Right’s New Bogeyman
A mysterious pro-abortion-rights group is claiming credit for acts of vandalism around the country, and right-wing activists and politicians are eating it up.
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Nathan Posner / Anadolu Agency / Getty What Kansas Means for the Midterms
The surprise defeat of a ballot measure may hold lessons for November and abortion access in other states.
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Ron Haviv / VII / Redux The Kansas Abortion Shocker
The defeat of an anti-abortion ballot measure could buoy Democratic hopes for an outraged electorate this fall.
