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Selected Articles on the Overturning of Roe

Andréa Becker: As anti-abortion laws pop up across the US, Mexican activists are helping Americans access free abortions.

Jamelle Bouie:

Kimberly Chernoby & Greer Donley: How to Save Women’s Lives After Roe: A federal law exists that could protect women having life-threatening pregnancy complications—but only if the Biden administration decides to use it.

Maggie Doherty: The Abortion Stories We Tell: Do we need to be more radically honest?

Cristian Farias: “Power, Not Reason”: The Fall of Roe and the Rise of Republican Orthodoxy at the Supreme Court.

Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura: In New York, Anti-Abortion Centers Outnumber Abortion Clinics.

Linda Greenhouse: Requiem for the Supreme Court.

The Guardian: How to support abortion access in a post-Roe America.

Kalpana Jain: America’s religious communities are divided over the issue of abortion: 5 essential reads.

Jeffrey M. Jones: Confidence in U.S. Supreme Court Sinks to Historic Low.

Kelli María Korducki: Ahead of the Supreme Court’s Roe decision, social media is rife with anti-abortion misinformation.

Katherine Mangan: Supreme Court Ruling Will Upend Reproductive Rights for College Students and Complicate Medical Training.

Kate Manne: Shouting My Abortion: On today of all days, I write for the first time publicly about a decision I’ve never regretted for a moment, and that any pregnant person is morally entitled to make.

New York Times editorial board: The Ruling Overturning Roe Is an Insult to Women and the Judicial System.

Politico: 18 Ways the Supreme Court Just Changed America: A range of thinkers on the future of abortion post-Roe in America — and how that will affect everything else.

Mabinty Quarshie: Black congresswomen urge Biden to declare public health and national emergency around abortion.

Adam Serwer:

Reva Siegel: The Trump court limited women’s rights using 19th-century standards: Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. gave a highly selective account of the nation’s “history and traditions” to achieve a longstanding conservative political goal.

Mark Joseph Stern:

Heather Cox Richardson & Joanne Freeman: Processing Roe’s Reversal in Real Time.

Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux: Roe v. Wade Defined An Era. The Supreme Court Just Started A New One.

Jia Tolentino: We’re Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe. We’re Going Somewhere Worse: We are entering an era not just of unsafe abortions but of the widespread criminalization of pregnancy.

Mary Ziegler: Roe’s Death Will Change American Democracy.