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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleClosing 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleRepublicans 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...
View ArticleSweet 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleRepublicans 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...
View ArticleMifepristone, 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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