Melissa Gira Grant

2 days ago | newrepublic.com | Melissa Gira Grant

Just a few months ago, Missouri voters approved a ballot measure to protect abortion rights. That measure, known as Amendment 3, added a “reproductive freedom” amendment to the state constitution. It was crafted to offer stronger legal protections for abortion than existed under Roe v. Wade, according to campaigners, and to end the state’s near-total abortion ban, which had been triggered by the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe.

2 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Melissa Gira Grant

Share On election night in 2024, Missouri voters became the first in the country to lift their state’s total abortion ban, with a ballot measure meant to enshrine in the state’s constitution the right to end a pregnancy. More than 1.5 million Missourians—motivated by the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade two years before, a ruling that had triggered the Missouri ban—fought back with their votes.

2 weeks ago | newrepublic.com | Melissa Gira Grant

On election night in 2024, Missouri voters became the first in the country to lift their state’s total abortion ban, with a ballot measure meant to enshrine in the state’s constitution the right to end a pregnancy. More than 1.5 million Missourians—motivated by the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade two years before, a ruling that had triggered the Missouri ban—fought back with their votes.

1 month ago | newrepublic.com | Melissa Gira Grant

In November, Missouri voters approved a ballot measure meant to end the state’s total abortion ban (which made only very narrow exceptions for life-threatening emergencies), adding an amendment to the state’s constitution that protected reproductive freedom, including the right to an abortion. The measure did not, however, automatically repeal the state’s dozens of anti-abortion laws—including those that have long made it impossible for young people in Missouri to obtain an abortion in the state.

1 month ago | newrepublic.com | Melissa Gira Grant

Ifonly the pronatalist turn in American politics were confined to onebespectacled, self-promoting husband and wife team starring in countless profiles over the last handful of years. “Meetthe ‘elite’ couples breeding to save mankind,” is how the The Telegraph introduced Simone and Malcolm Collins in2023. “America’s premier pronatalists,” as The Guardian dubbed them, “want to make Americaprocreate again” per the Washington Post.