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Planned Parenthood
October 25, 2023
Melissa Gira Grant
The Absurd Lawsuit That Could Bankrupt Planned Parenthood
An anti-abortion activist and Texas’s attorney general have teamed up to try to force the organization out of the state—and now an anti-abortion judge has advanced their cause.
January 13, 2023
Grace Segers
The Plan to Keep Abortion Rights Atop Voters Minds for the Next Two Years
Six months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the decision is still seen as an electoral game-changer.
May 9, 2022
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Becca Andrews
The Last Abortion Clinic in Knoxville Draws Patients From Hours Away. What Happens If It Disappears?
Tennessee is one of 13 states with “trigger” laws that would fully outlaw abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
May 26, 2021
Marie Solis
How Anti-Abortion Activists’ “Reckless Dream” Made It to the Supreme Court
In 2011, the first “fetal heartbeat” bill was introduced in Ohio. The tactic was seen as too extreme to ban abortion effectively, but a decade later it may pay off.
January 29, 2021
Melissa Gira Grant
The March for Life Marches in Place
The anti-abortion gathering isn’t “canceled,” its organizers announced—it’s going “virtual.”
August 27, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Real, Paranoid Housewives of the Republican Convention
Patricia McCloskey and Kimberly Guilfoyle are a new twist on a dangerous lineage of conservative women.
June 18, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
A Worker Uprising at Planned Parenthood
Staff at the New York affiliate of the health care provider say their CEO is abusing her power and compromising their mission.
April 8, 2020
Jo Livingstone
Planned Parenthood Is the Real Star of
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Eliza Hittman’s new movie is a hyper-realistic abortion story.
October 7, 2019
Myra MacPherson
The Forgotten Father of the Abortion Rights Movement
What Bill Baird's aggressive, often illegal form of activism can teach a new generation about combating anti-abortion forces.
August 20, 2019
Melissa Gira Grant
Trump’s Title X Restrictions Are Nothing Short of Coercion
The administration's gag rule could force reproductive health clinics to function more like anti-abortion “pregnancy centers.”
July 22, 2019
Amelia Bonow
Don’t Depoliticize Abortion
Why Leana Wen and Planned Parenthood had to part ways.
September 28, 2018
Emily Atkin
A Pivotal Election for Abortion Rights
It's the "Year of the Woman." So why is this issue being overlooked ahead of the midterms?
January 29, 2018
Sarah Jones
What Democrats Can Learn From Cecile Richards
In the face of a sustained Republican onslaught, the longtime head of Planned Parenthood didn't back down.
April 13, 2017
Sarah Jones
Donald Trump just set the stage for an assault on Planned Parenthood.
April 6, 2017
Clio Chang
Ivanka secretly met with Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards, which doesn’t mean squat.
March 27, 2017
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump is baiting the Freedom Caucus to shut down the government.
January 6, 2017
Sarah Jones
The Trump administration will be terrible for reproductive rights.
January 5, 2017
Juliet Kleber
Planned Parenthood should not rest its hopes on Donald Trump supporters.
December 19, 2016
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Amanda Robb
The Making of an American Terrorist
Robert Dear shot up a Planned Parenthood clinic and killed three people. Did the right-wing media help turn a disturbed loner into a mass murderer?
June 10, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Forget the woman card, Clinton has the feminist card.
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