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No Victims Allowed

Right-wing policies have obvious victims, but right-wing voters can’t be allowed to notice them. This week, reports of a pregnant 10-year-old brought out the full arsenal of denial. In the TV version...

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The Battle for Voters’ Imaginations

https://www.theeditorialcartoons.com/editorial-cartoon/Nick+Anderson%27s+Editorial+Cartoons/2022-07-28/195313 Post-Dobbs, voters are imagining very different abortion scenarios than the ones the...

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Closing Argument: Abortion

https://madison.com/opinion/cartoon/hands-on-wisconsin-end-of-roe-means-fewer-rights-for-women/article_5769a345-2d8d-5b54-8307-4fa275b9a8e7.html Will women make their own decisions, or will government...

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A right-wing judge takes aim at medication abortions

Someday soon, a perfectly safe abortion drug could become unavailable nationwide, even in states that defend reproductive rights. That sounds so crazy that most of us have a hard time taking it...

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Republicans think they’ve found a way to pitch abortion bans

Abortion bans are unpopular, unless their advocates can demonize the opposing position and distract voters from what they really want. Since the Dobbs decision last year, abortion has been a winning...

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Sweet Home, Gilead

With its ruling affirming the rights of “extrauterine children” and invoking “the wrath of a holy God”, the Alabama Supreme Court takes a giant step towards theocracy. Given all the bad press Alabama...

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The Supreme Court will have to carry this case to term

The mifepristone suit from Amarillo is so embarrassingly bad that even the Court’s conservative majority can’t justify doing what it wants. The anti-abortion-pill case that right-wing culture-war...

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The Arizona Abortion Ruling

The result is horrible, but it’s a correct reading of the the legislature’s mess. Before he was appointed to the Supreme Court, Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes is supposed to have admonished an idealistic...

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Republicans Scramble to Contain Their Abortion Disaster

Trump’s let-the-states-decide statement looked clever until Arizona actually decided. All across the country, the abortion issue has been helping Democrats and hurting Republicans. For decades it...

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Mifepristone, round 2

A previous lawsuit to ban the drug used in about half of all US abortions failed at the Supreme Court for technical reasons. But a new suit fixes those problems. It also introduces some truly weird...

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