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Life After Roe.

  1. life after roe
    Lindsey Graham Clears a Path for Republicans to Retreat on AbortionA 15-week ban nationwide, instead of the total and near-total bans percolating in the states, is a signal the GOP is fearful of the Dobbs backlash.
    By Ed Kilgore
  2. the intelligencer profile
    Dorothy Roberts Tried to Warn UsThe legal scholar has been writing about the criminalization of pregnancy for 25 years. Now she’s calling to abolish the child welfare system.
    By Irin Carmon
  3. the national interest
    Republicans Will Fight to Restrict Abortion, But Will Only Die for Tax CutsA window into who truly rules the GOP.
    By Jonathan Chait
  4. early and often
    Mehmet Oz Recently Flip-Flopped to an Extreme Abortion StanceAnd now the GOP Senate candidate may need to flip right back as he struggles to catch up with Democratic opponent John Fetterman.
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. life after roe
    Vulnerable Anti-abortion House Republicans Set a Trap for ThemselvesPre-Dobbs, at-risk House Republicans bent the knee to the anti-abortion movement by backing a federal “personhood” statute. Now it actually matters.
    By Ed Kilgore
  6. life after roe
    Focus on Abortion Rights Can Help Blue-State Democrats TooAs polling on California’s abortion-rights ballot initiative shows, Democrats everywhere were mobilized by Dobbs. That could matter a lot in November.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. life after roe
    Blake Masters Executes Huge If Sneaky Flip-Flop on AbortionFeeling heat on his extremist abortion position, Trump’s guy in Arizona’s Senate race changed his position and accused his opponent of lying about it.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. life after roe
    How Abortion Transformed Democrats’ Midterm ChancesThe backlash to the fall of Roe could boost Democratic turnout, change swing-voter attitudes, and put Republicans on the defensive.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. life after roe
    Ludicrous Kansas Abortion Recount Could Be the Wave of the FutureThere were no grounds for a hand recount of the big win for abortion rights. But right-wing activists think sowing doubt is its own justification.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. life after roe
    The Anti-Abortion Movement’s Divisions Suddenly Have Huge ConsequencesFights over rape-incest exceptions and when exactly life begins are in danger of undermining already low popular support for abortion bans.
    By Ed Kilgore
  11. life after roe
    Abortion-Rights Fight Finally Gives Kamala Harris a Chance to LeadAfter being assigned several no-win tasks, the veep is emerging as the White House’s biggest champion on the crucial issue of reproductive rights.
    By Ed Kilgore
  12. life after roe
    Kansas Shows the Potential Power of Pro-Choice Republican VotersThe Kansas abortion vote confirms that there are a significant number of pro-choice Republicans. Post Dobbs, they may get fed up with their party.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. life after roe
    Religious Liberty Is for Pro-Choice People TooPro-abortion-rights clergy are heading to court, arguing that post-Dobbs abortion bans violate their freedom to practice their religion.
    By Ed Kilgore
  14. life after roe
    The Right to the Ballot and the BodyKansas shows why the anti-abortion movement has to win power by undemocratic means.
    By Sarah Jones
  15. life after roe
    Kansas Voters Deliver Stunning Win for Abortion RightsStrong turnout in the very red state shows pro-choice voters are willing to fight back, with big implications for abortion politics and the midterms.
    By Ed Kilgore
  16. life after roe
    The Kansas Abortion Vote Could Be a Big Pro-Choice VictoryAnti-abortion ballot measures like Kansas’s “Value Them Both” amendment tend to pass, so its defeat would signal a huge post-Dobbs shift.
    By Ed Kilgore
  17. 2022 midterms
    Are Democrats Turning Around Their Dire Midterm Prospects?There have been some good recent signs for the party, but there’s still a long way to go between now and Election Day.
    By Ed Kilgore
  18. life after roe
    For Democrats, It’s Now Culture War or NothingDemocrats have an opportunity and responsibility to fight for abortion and other rights at a time when they just aren’t trusted on the economy.
    By Ed Kilgore
  19. life after roe
    House Passes Contraceptives Bill the Senate Will Likely KillOnly eight GOP representatives voted for House legislation that conservatives deem a threat to religious liberty.
    By Ed Kilgore
  20. the system
    How Democrats Bolstered the Post-Roe Enforcement RegimeWhen funding the police backfires.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  21. life after roe
    The False Piety of the Anti-Abortion MovementThey preached about a moral crisis and were unprepared for what they unleashed.
    By Sarah Jones
  22. life after roe
    An Ohio Girl’s Pregnancy From Rape Is Not a HoaxThe right’s telling reaction to the story of a 10-year-old girl denied an abortion after the end of Roe.
    By Sarah Jones
  23. life after roe
    Kansas Is First State to Vote on Abortion Rights Post-DobbsA Republican-sponsored constitutional amendment striking down state-based abortion rights will go before primary voters in August.
    By Ed Kilgore
  24. the body politic
    Joe Biden’s Dobbs Response Has Been Breathtakingly AwfulWhy can’t the president show some fight?
    By Rebecca Traister
  25. life after roe
    Birth-Control Pills Should Be Available to EveryoneThe FDA may make a contraceptive pill available over the counter, which would help protect reproductive freedom at a time of considerable uncertainty.
    By Sarah Jones
  26. life after roe
    HR Departments Are Scrambling Over Abortion Travel PoliciesThe space in which a constitutional right once was is being filled by focus-grouped messaging and calculated estimates of abortion’s ROI.
    By Molly Osberg
  27. life after roe
    Biden’s Abortion-Rights Message Falls ShortAn executive order won’t reverse the perception that the White House is out of touch.
    By Sarah Jones
  28. life after roe
    What Polls Tell Us About Abortion and the MidtermsDemocrats hope a “Dobbs effect” will help them in November.
    By Ed Kilgore
  29. politics
    Biden Is Now Polling Worse Than Trump Was at the Same Point in His PresidencyUntil recently, the Democrat could compare himself favorably to his deeply unpopular predecessor. It’s not so clear anymore.
    By Ed Kilgore
  30. the group portrait
    Abortion Is Still Legal in Trigger-Law States, Thanks to These LawyersThe post-Dobbs fight has just begun.
    By Sarah Jones
  31. life after roe
    Will Dobbs Change the Way We Feel About ‘Good’ Republicans?It’s time to reconsider whether to keep lionizing people like Mike Pence and Liz Cheney.
    By Ed Kilgore
  32. life after roe
    Could Dobbs Be Reversed Like Roe Was?As the fight for abortion rights shifts to the states, advocates shouldn’t give up on eventually prevailing in the Supreme Court.
    By Ed Kilgore
  33. the body politic
    The Abortion Stories We Didn’t TellHow decades of silence left us unprepared for the post-Roe fight.
    By Rebecca Traister
  34. life after roe.
    Women Aren’t SaviorsLiberation requires collective struggle.
    By Sarah Jones
  35. life after roe
    Biden: Scrap the Filibuster (Once) to Codify AbortionThe ultimate Senate traditionalist backs a more drastic approach for the second time in a year.
    By Benjamin Hart
  36. life after roe
    State Constitutions Are Now an Urgent Abortion BattlegroundNow that Roe v. Wade is gone, state courts, and in some cases voters, will decide whether to give abortion rights constitutional protection.
    By Ed Kilgore
  37. early and often
    Denied Communion at Home, Pelosi Receives It at the VaticanPope Francis’s actions were a rebuke to conservative U.S. bishops, who have attempted to ban pro-choice politicians, including Biden, from Communion.
    By Ed Kilgore
  38. early and often
    Republican Congressional Candidate Pulls a Todd Akin on AbortionVirginia’s Yesli Vega called into question how many women become pregnant as a result of rape.
    By Benjamin Hart
  39. the national interest
    The Anti-Abortion Movement Is Not Going to Start Caring About Families NowThe wan hope for a anti-abortion, pro-family right.
    By Jonathan Chait
  40. life after roe
    Why the Post-Roe GOP Will Only Get More RadicalDecades after partnering with the anti-abortion movement, the Republican Party has finally delivered. But ending Roe is just the start.
    By Ed Kilgore
  41. life after roe
    Outrage, Uncertainty, and Instant Abortion Bans After Roe v. Wade OverturnedSome Republican leaders are already calling for a nationwide ban, while protesters assemble outside the Supreme Court to express their outrage.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  42. life after roe
    Could New Abortion Bans Lose in Court?It won’t be easy, but there are ways to limit the impact of Dobbs.
    By Jay Michaelson
  43. anonymous
    ‘Things Will Be Fine’: GOP Insiders Doubt Overturning Roe v. Wade Will Cost ThemThey don’t seem all that worried the Supreme Court’s decision to end the right to an abortion will come back to haunt them in the midterms.
    By Ben Jacobs
  44. life after roe
    This Is Not an Abortion StoryPregnancy felt like a choice, now it feels like a trap.
    By Sarah Jones
  45. life after roe
    No, Trump, God Didn’t Overturn Roe v. WadeThe 45th president has a habit of blasphemously confusing himself with the Almighty, despite his religious illiteracy.
    By Ed Kilgore
  46. life after roe
    Overturning Roe Is Just the BeginningConservatives are already floating a national abortion ban and the overthrow of other privacy-based rights.
    By Claire Lampen
  47. abortion
    The Dissenters Say You’re Not Hysterical“The majority tells everyone not to worry,” the dissenting justices write. But they’re ringing the alarm.
    By Irin Carmon
  48. life after roe
    John Roberts Had a Vague Plan to Only Half-Kill Abortion RightsThe chief justice said he preferred a “more measured course” in his Dobbs concurrence. His new standard would have allowed most abortion bans anyway.
    By Ed Kilgore
  49. life after roe
    The End of Abortion Rights Is Trump’s Big PaybackHe promised Republicans a Court conservative enough to overturn Roe so long as they tolerated his corruption and criminality. It worked.
    By Ankush Khardori
  50. the national interest
    Now We See What Happens When Social Conservatives Take the WheelThe Christian right’s power finally becomes real.
    By Jonathan Chait
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