Best Article Politics Science Religion
Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, Wives
Inside the political battle over reproductive rights in Texas a decade ago.
Best Article Politics Science Religion
Inside the political battle over reproductive rights in Texas a decade ago.
Mimi Swartz Texas Monthly Aug 2012 35min Permalink
How did the most wanted man in America, the serial bomber behind the Atlanta Olympics explosion, survive for five years in the North Carolina woods? And was he helped?
Bruce Barcott Outside Sep 2003 15min Permalink
A hotel serves as a site for discreet abortions.
Arianna Reiche Joyland Magazine Nov 2020 15min Permalink
Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning.
Sarah Zhang The Atlantic Nov 2020 35min Permalink
A portrait of a modern family undone by the political zeitgeist.
Aaron Gell Medium May 2020 20min Permalink
An antique high chair; the complexities of parenting and growing.
Chelsea Sutton Pithead Chapel May 2020 Permalink
From legal battles to securing vendors to getting the walls painted, every budget line is a struggle.
Cynthia Koons, Rebecca Greenfield Bloomberg Businessweek Feb 2020 15min Permalink
How is it that literature has produced a wealth of information about the sex lives of straight white men and yet so little about the abortions they have or have not paid for?
Wyatt Williams The Believer Jan 2020 15min Permalink
If you want to see what a world without Roe looks like, look at Mississippi.
Becca Andrews Mother Jones Sep 2019 15min Permalink
With state legislatures passing new abortion restrictions, the Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund follows its own compass on how to best help clients.
Zoë Beery New York Times Magazine Jun 2019 20min Permalink
Everything seemed routine. The technician finished up and left the room. The soundtrack of our baby’s heartbeat played an upbeat tempo in the background. A few minutes went by and the technician came back, letting us know she would take a few more pictures of his head for a clearer look. That sounded reasonable. She left again, this time for longer, and when she returned a doctor wearing a white lab coat walked in behind her looking very serious and shut the door.
Missy Kurzweil Jezebel Feb 2019 20min Permalink
Six women tell their stories.
A secret network of women is working outside the law and the medical establishment to provide safe, cheap home abortions.
Lizzie Presser California Sunday Mar 2018 30min Permalink
“To fight for my son, I have to argue that he should never have been born.”
Norma McCorvey, the “Jane Roe” plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, who left Pro-Choice activism for born-again Christianity and a strange life of financial opportunism, died this week.
Joshua Prager Vanity Fair Feb 2013 20min Permalink
On the interminable two weeks between a bad sonogram and the end of a pregnancy.
Jessica Grose Lenny Feb 2017 10min Permalink
The right to choose in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Kiera Feldman Harper's Nov 2016 25min Permalink
In El Salvador, pregnant women have more to fear than Zika.
Rachel Nolan Harper's Oct 2016 35min Permalink
“As an American woman, I currently have less reproductive autonomy than I would have had the day I was born.”
Alex Morris Rolling Stone Apr 2016 25min Permalink
The political history of Planned Parenthood.
Jill Lepore New Yorker Nov 2011 35min Permalink
On the ground with a young Texas doctor who travels the state to provide abortions.
Irin Carmon MSNBC Oct 2015 Permalink
Sex, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court.
Jill Lepore New Yorker May 2015 20min Permalink
The informal network of volunteers that keep abortion access open in Texas.
Alexa Garcia-Ditta Texas Observer May 2015 10min Permalink
One woman’s 407 mile journey to have an abortion.
Monica Hesse Washington Post May 2015 Permalink
A grandmother tells her story.
Diana Wiener Buzzfeed Oct 2014 10min Permalink