Esther Gim

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Senior Editor at Rewire News Group

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Abortion Ballot Tracker: Where Your State Stands on Codifying Reproductive Rights

Nov 6, 2024 | rewirenewsgroup.com | Esther Gim |Natasha Roy

UPDATE, November 6, 2024: This article has been updated to reflect the outcomes of abortion-related ballot measures. Abortion wins elections. We saw it last year when Ohio voters enshrined abortion rights into the state constitution, and in 2022 when Kansas, Kentucky, and Michigan voters rejected abortion restrictions and affirmed expanded protections. For the 2024 election cycle, advocates and opponents alike pushed more abortion-related measures onto upcoming ballots.
Abortion Ballot Tracker: Where Your State Stands on Codifying Reproductive Rights

Oct 21, 2024 | rewirenewsgroup.com | Esther Gim |Natasha Roy

UPDATE, October 21, 2024: This article has been updated to reflect developments in Florida. Abortion wins elections. We saw it last year when Ohio voters enshrined abortion rights into the state constitution, and in 2022 when Kansas, Kentucky, and Michigan voters rejected abortion restrictions and affirmed expanded protections. Now, advocates and opponents alike are pushing more abortion-related measures onto upcoming ballots.
Goat-Herding Nuns Are Making Their Case to SCOTUS

Oct 3, 2024 | rewirenewsgroup.com | Esther Gim |Imani Gandy |Jessica Mason Pieklo

If there’s one thing conservatives like doing, it’s finding the perfect plaintiff to be the face of a court challenge to a policy that will strip people’s rights. Enter: the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and their plaintiffs: a group of goat-herding Anglican nuns, who are challenging a New York state regulation that requires employers to provide medically necessary abortions in their employee health insurance plans.
A President Harris Might Not Get Any Supreme Court Picks

Oct 1, 2024 | rewirenewsgroup.com | Kevin McMahon |Esther Gim

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article, “A President Harris might not get any Supreme Court picks—Biden proposes term limits to make sure all future presidents get two.”By Kevin J. McMahonTo emphasize the importance of an election, presidential candidates often predict that the next president will have an opportunity to fill one or two vacancies on the Supreme Court.
Did 'Dobbs' Break John Roberts?

Sep 25, 2024 | rewirenewsgroup.com | Esther Gim |Jessica Mason Pieklo |Imani Gandy |Elie Mystal

Welcome to a new season of Boom! Lawyered, which also means a new Supreme Court term is around the corner. What better way to usher that in with friend-of-the-pod Elie Mystal from the Nation joining Jess and Imani on the season premiere of the podcast? They try to answer important questions weighing on all our minds, including:Is the gig finally up for Chief Justice John Roberts and his reputation as anything other than a Republican operative?
'Disbanding' Project 2025 Won't Stop Global Attacks on Women's Rights

Sep 23, 2024 | rewirenewsgroup.com | Esther Gim |Eve Brecker |Rachel Clement

Despite arguments from both presidential nominees that Project 2025’s work will or won’t impact future policy, the Heritage Foundation itself isn’t the most critical part of this conversation: The impacts of its proposed policies are a potential death sentence to millions, and that matters more.
What Ever Happened to All the Abortion Boats?

Sep 18, 2024 | rewirenewsgroup.com | Esther Gim |Garnet Henderson

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a floating abortion clinic sailed in to save the day, providing care in federal waters. At least, that’s what one man wanted people to believe. Unfortunately, his hamfisted and awkwardly named operation, Abort Offshore, was most likely a hoax that never produced anything even resembling a floating clinic. But this was not the only pie-in-the-sky plan to innovate abortion care post-Dobbs.
Why We Need to Let Southern Social Justice Activists Lead

Sep 17, 2024 | rewirenewsgroup.com | Esther Gim |Madeline Morcelle

This month marks five years since national social justice groups arrived in Mississippi after federal immigration officials arrested 680 workers at seven food processing plants. Fresh from the airport, some sought to usurp Mississippi advocates’ coordination of the response to the largest U.S. immigration raids in recent U.S. history. They pushed aside local community organizers and other leaders who had a deep understanding of their communities’ needs.
'It's Never Been Done:' Black-led Birthing Center to Serve Detroit

Sep 16, 2024 | rewirenewsgroup.com | Esther Gim |Tatiana Walk-Morris

Parents in Detroit will soon be able to seek birthing care at a Black-led freestanding birth center, the first of its kind in Michigan. Birth Detroit, a community-based maternal health-care provider led by midwives on Detroit’s northwest side, has been serving families via the Easy Access Clinic in recent years. The goal from its inception in 2018 was to have its own center, said Elon Geffrard, Birth Detroit’s co-founder and perinatal support and education director.
The Circus in Town Is the Trump Campaign

Sep 11, 2024 | rewirenewsgroup.com | Esther Gim |Jessica Mason Pieklo

This piece first appeared in our weekly newsletter, The Fallout. The first presidential election since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade is turning out to be a total clown show for conservatives. J.D. Vance can’t order doughnuts without making it weird. Donald Trump rambles incoherently about mifepristone and whatever other shiny object has captured his attention at the moment.