Julie Upton

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Julie Upton

Welcome back to Barf Bag, a subscriber-exclusive column. Here’s everything you get when you subscribe. On Sunday, the Atlantic published a hilarious story that, in a different week, might have gotten a lot more attention. But this particular week was full of push alerts about tariffs, the stock market, and emergency court rulings on the legality of sending immigrants to a concentration camp in El Salvador without due process.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Julie Upton

On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case about whether people with Medicaid can sue a state for blocking them from getting care at a qualified provider who accepts the insurance. The provider in this instance is Planned Parenthood, which South Carolina tried to kick out of the program in 2018 because it also provides abortions, thus the lawsuit has national significance.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Julie Upton

Last month, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York announced it will list its Manhattan clinic building for sale due to budget shortfalls, a move that would leave the national organization with zero presence in the borough where it was founded a century ago. It was the most visible sign of the crisis that has hit Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers since the end of Roe v. Wade. With Trump back in office, that crisis could intensify even further — starting at the Supreme Court.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Julie Upton

Abortion opponents have long used graphic photos of embryonic and fetal tissue to try to persuade people outside clinics not to have abortions. The same groups successfully used lurid descriptions of an abortion procedure known as intact dilation and extraction, or D&X, to ban it nationwide in 2003, a law the Supreme Court upheld in 2007, gutting Roe v. Wade in the process.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Julie Upton

The day before Donald Trump’s inauguration, ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio wrote that the administration’s executive orders would be “glorified press releases” that won’t change the law, but will aim to create confusion and chaos among people who are already scared. That prediction has largely proved true, as seen in Trump’s EOs purporting to end birthright citizenship, ban medical care for transgender youth, and claw back government funding.