Congress must help address homelessness With the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision (Grants Pass v. Johnson) allowing cities to prohibit homelessness without addressing its root causes, the […]
Tag: abortion rights
As a pregnant law professor in Arizona, I fear the abortion ban
by Caitlin Millat I am 19 weeks pregnant, a legal scholar and a resident of Arizona, whose highest court last Tuesday upheld a 160-year-old law banning nearly […]
Thank Alabama for embryo honesty
I’m not here to join the mockery of Alabama for declaring that embryos are children — and, therefore, in vitro fertilization clinics must protect them forever. On […]
The Good, the Bad and the Stupid 6
Good: HB 4223 — “that the Division of Corrections provide each probationer with physical copies of their birth certificate and Social Security Administration card upon release from […]
Notes from under the gold dome
Some thoughts about a couple of pieces of legislation at the state house: The first is a resolution. Delegate Kayla Young (D-Kanawha) has introduced House Joint Resolution […]
Republicans can’t do anything about the abortion issue
Republicans don’t know how to “talk about abortion.” That’s what Donald Trump said following a string of losses blamed on his party’s efforts to severely restrict it. […]
Guest essay: Achieving abortion justice, trans liberation in W.Va.
by Ash Orr On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization upheld a Mississippi law imposing […]
Women’s reproductive freedom is moving backward
by Lilian Bui “We mothers stand still so our daughters can look back to see how far they’ve come.” That quote from Barbie creator Ruth Handler — […]
GOP debate aired a grotesque lie about abortion
Despite the looming shadow of the absent frontrunner, the Republican presidential primary debate did get into enough non-Donald Trump substance to establish that even the putatively mainstream […]
SCOTUS must reject efforts to ban mifepristone
A New Orleans federal appeals court has rejected ideologue Texas Federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling against the Food and Drug Administration’s 2000 approval of the medication abortion […]
