Wrote for The Nation about what we have been watching over the past 24 hours. The people in power are terrified of the strength of this movement, and they are doing everything they can to punish students for having the audacity to challenge them. thenation.com/article/activi…

'The people in charge are scared. They are terrified of the power of the mvmt for Palestine... And they are terrified that one of the key pillars of the American system—support for Israel no matter what it does—is being shaken.' -Jack Mirkinson The Nation thenation.com/article/activi…

Across the US, pro-Palestine students have faced repression, suspension, and arrest. We asked more than a dozen students to share how their schools have restricted the right to protest.
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I know this is happening all over the country, both before Dobbs and even more so, after.

This is not a 'South' problem - it's a national, 'decades of complacency with anti-abortion policies and practices' problem.

All abortion restrictions are harmful. Period.

Facing criminal prosecution, doctors are now performing unnecessary C-sections instead of abortions.

More via Mary Tuma for The Nation:
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Whether these doctors are aware of it or not, this is precisely the approach that anti-abortion physicians have advocated for many years now. It’s what an anti-abortion doctor wanted to do to Kristyn, whose story I reported for The Nation before Roe fell: thenation.com/article/societ…

For The Nation: Fearing legal threats, doctors are performing C-sections – which carry greater medical risk – in lieu of abortions. This 'disturbing' trend is emerging in *at least* Texas and Louisiana –– and experts predict it will become more common: thenation.com/article/societ…

New at The Nation: Mary Tuma covers the 'terrifying new reality' of doctors in abortion-banned states forcing patients to undergo C-section surgeries instead of providing them abortions. 'I’m certain it’s happening all across the country,' says Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ thenation.com/article/societ…

A good day to read lucy dean stockton’s killer reporting if you’ve been slacking on your taxes…

Homicide is the leading cause of death for pregnant & postpartum people in the US.

Missouri, Texas & Arkansas bar judges from finalizing divorces while a person is pregnant. Arizona often doesn't allow divorce to finalize until a woman gives birth. azmirror.com/2024/04/12/abo…

On the first episode of The A Files Podcast, hosts Renee Bracey Sherman and @ByReginaMahone dig deeper into this necessary history:

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If you want to learn more about the connection to this anti-Black history, Regina Mahone and I have a podcast The A Files: A Secret History of Abortion where we break it all down in our first episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

They were also about fears of the white population being out populated because white women were using birth control and Black people were on the precipice of abolishing slavery and gaining some political power.
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As we found for our book research in LIBERATING ABORTION many of the first bans were poison control measures from the 1820s and were rarely if ever enforced. The laws in the 1860s were part of a wave of restrictions to kick Black, Native, & immigrant midwives out of medical care.

When Justice Blackmun wrote Roe he looked through history’s acceptance of abortion and learned that generally it was accepted until quickening. That is when the Supreme Court created the trimester framework legalizing abortion until viability, which was the new quickening.

What’s important to know about the context of these old laws is that pregnancy was considered such after quickening, when the pregnant person could feel fetal movement. So, what they’re considering an abortion is a later second trimester abortion by today’s standards.

It's here!!!! The cover is by the incomparable Jamilla Okubo Studio. The flowers in the patterns are abortifacients, and the silhouettes represent to us the long lineage of people who have been liberating abortion. Renee Bracey Sherman and I are so excited to share their stories in our book!

The press is giving Trump exactly what he wants by treating his ever-changing abortion rhetoric as at last a clue to his real beliefs. He gets the only thing he cares about — an ego boost — and the GOP gets cover for their pursuit of more abortion bans.

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Racism and sexism can crop up in any workplace, particularly male-dominated ones like auto manufacturing. It's how a company responds that sets the tone. Tesla did virtually nothing to address these problems. Perhaps not surprising; culture often rots from the top, and, well

Tesla's factory floors are hotbeds of disgusting, flagrant racial discrimination, sexual harassment, and safety hazards. I combed through more than 50 legal complaints, government records, and spoke to workers to get a complete picture: thenation.com/article/societ…