Sep 4, 2022 | Abortion, History, Salon.com
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Joe Biden Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images
Future historians may well remember 2022 as the year when the U.S. Supreme Court permanently went off the rails. This goes well beyond the tormented, quasi-religious reasoning used by the court’s conservative majority in Dobbs v. Jackson, the case that officially reversed the nationwide abortion rights established in 1973 by Roe v....
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May 15, 2022 | Abortion, Salon.com
Portrait of United States Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney (1777-1864) Getty Images/Bettmann
The Supreme Court is, and always has been, a political institution. That would be self-evident if not for the mystique that has been built up around America’s most important judicial body. That aura has started to dissipate — a recent Monmouth University poll found that more than half of Americans disapproved of the court’s recent performance — but it remains powerful enough that people take Chief Justice John Roberts seriously when he bemoans the supposed politicization of the Supreme Court....
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May 7, 2022 | Abortion, Salon.com
Sign-carrying pro-choice & pro-life advocates clashing outside Supreme Court, demonstrating against Pennsylvania case ruling imperiling 1973 Roe vs Wade decision legalizing abortion.\ Diana Walker/Getty Images
On May 2, 2022, an anonymous whistleblower informed Politico that the Supreme Court is planning on overturning Roe v. Wade. If this indeed comes to pass as expected, the landscape of reproductive rights and abortion access in the United States would shift radically overnight, with state governments deciding individually whether to make abortion outright illegal....
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Dec 18, 2021 | Abortion, History, Salon.com
Anti-Abortion activists gather in oppostion in front of the supreme court during the annual Women’s March October 2, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Women’s March and other groups organized marches across the country to protest the new abortion law in Texas. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
There is an intriguing parallel between the right-wing’s opposition to abortion rights and its crusade to prevent gun control, at least when it comes to the history of those movements in the United States....
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Apr 13, 2020 | Abortion, Salon.com
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A federal judge in Alabama ruled Sunday that the state cannot bar abortions in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
“Based on the current record, the defendants’ efforts to combat COVID-19 do not outweigh the lasting harm imposed by the denial of an individual’s right to terminate her pregnancy, by an undue burden or increase in risk on patients imposed by a delayed procedure or by the cloud of unwarranted prosecution against providers,” U.S....
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Mar 26, 2020 | Abortion, Salon.com
Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough on “Morning Joe” MSNBC
“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough criticized conservatives who want to “euthanize” the elderly in order to protect the American economy, calling Democrats the “party of life right now.”
“Right now, these conservatives are making Democrats, who are pro-choice, actually look more pro-life,” Scarborough said Thursday morning....
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Jul 16, 2016 | Abortion, Civil Liberties, Conservativism, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, Immigration, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans
Published: The Good Men Project (July 16, 2016) As The New York Times recently reported, there are an awful lot of social issues in which Donald Trump doesn’t now or didn’t in the past line up with his new vice presidential running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence. These...
Oct 10, 2015 | Abortion, Gun Control, mic, Republicans
Published: Salon (October 10, 2015), The Daily Dot (October 7, 2015) In a recent episode of The Daily Show, host Trevor Noah jokingly compared Republican politicians’ pro-life stance on abortion with their blasé attitude toward the increasing number of American deaths...
Mar 21, 2013 | Abortion, Civil Liberties, Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, Gender and Sexism, Health & Wellness (Physical)
Published: mic (March 21, 2013) I was reluctant to use the same Thomas Jefferson quote twice in less than two weeks, but because the governor of Mississippi missed his golden opportunity to mention it, I simply had to post it again: "The error seems not sufficiently...
Aug 24, 2012 | Abortion, Conservativism, Elections, Elections - Other, Extremism, Gender and Sexism, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans
Published: PolicyMic (August 24, 2012) It is true that a nation which practices censorship cannot remain free. To this axiom, though, I would add that a society which doesn't respond to inflammatory stupidity with universal contempt cannot remain safe for reasoned...