The Government Is Coming for Female Personhood
It’s not paranoia: With the anti-DEI purges and the potential passage of the SAVE Act, the current government really is trying to roll back American progress, and American gender roles, to the 1950s.
reproductive justice
The Mifepristone Battle Isn’t Over Yet
On the eve of Dobbs’s second anniversary, we celebrated a small victory with the mifepristone decision. But the time is now for Dems to make a preemptive strike to protect abortion rights before SCOTUS takes another swing at them.
Bad Journalism Is Giving Life to the “Fetal Personhood” Lie
For years, reproductive-justice activists have been warning that the GOP’s “fetal personhood” bills would endanger access to birth control and fertility treatment—especially IVF. Why hasn't the media taken them to task?
Who Exactly Are “We the People”?
“All men are created equal” only holds for a specific value of “all” “men” and “equal”—and white cishet male Republicans appear to be the only ones who can define the terms.
Anti-Abortion Folks Want Us to Feel Hopeless. Don’t!
Since the overturning of Roe—which would have celebrated its 51st anniversary yesterday—the GOP has been threatening our bodily autonomy at every level. Here are 7 effective ways to fend off their attacks—and win.
Lying About Abortion Is the GOP’s Election Strategy
Despite voters making their choice for safe and accessible abortion resoundingly clear at the polls, Republicans are doubling down on their life-threatening bans.
Where Is the Post-Roe Leadership?
With an administration that has failed to protect abortion access, activists—most of them people of color, including a handful of Congress members—are left to lead the way.
Will We Ever Fix Our Racist Health Care System?
As we await the final nail in the 'Roe' coffin, Linda Villarosa, author of the groundbreaking 'Under the Skin,' talks with DAME about the horrifying history of sterilizing Black Americans—and the alarming rates of infant and maternal mortality that continue to this day.
Our Bodies Are Literally on the Line
When our columnist began writing her history on the frontline fight to protect abortion back in 2018, even she couldn't predict the horrific landscape for reproductive rights in 2022—and how much more necessary her book would be.
The Forgotten History of the Underground Abortion Movement
Roe is poised to be overturned by year's end. And nearly every state in the union is passing increasingly oppressive, dangerous anti-abortion bills. Can we survive without safe, legal abortion?