Roe’s Autopsy: The death of Roe v. Wade followed decades of premeditation. Here, “Operation Rescue” organizer Randall Terry shows a crowd of anti-abortion protesters a human fetus during a sit-in outside the Northeast Women’s Center in Philadelphia, July, 1988.

Books

Who Killed Roe v. Wade?

by Clara Bingham April 6, 2026May 5, 2026

The decades-long plot against abortion rights had many fathers, who were largely lost to history until now.

Magazine

How Reproductive Freedom Advocates Outsmarted the Anti-Abortion Movement

by Carrie N. Baker April 25, 2025June 1, 2025

Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade, the number of abortions is up because of telehealth and the free sharing of mifepristone and misoprostol.

Newsletter

Rebuilding America the Washington Monthly Way

by Rob Wolfe December 20, 2024November 21, 2025

Reporting policy and politics and offering solutions. It’s what we do. But we need you.

November/December 2024

Why They Reign Supreme

by Garrett Epps October 29, 2024October 29, 2024

A fresh and readable one-volume history of the Court explains how we got from Marbury to Dobbs.

Politics

What Trump and Vance Could Do to What’s Left of Reproductive Freedom

by Caroline Fredrickson October 29, 2024October 28, 2024

Dobbs was a disaster. A national abortion ban would make it worse, but a MAGA White House could install judges ready to take down the abortion pill to laws in legal abortion states.

Law and Justice

Abortion and the Comstock “Chastity” Law Time Bomb

by Victoria Nourse and William Eskridge April 15, 2024April 14, 2024

The 19th-century law banning materials “producing abortion” is still on the books and is a ready tool for anti-choice forces. But there are legal arguments that can defuse it.

Newsletter

Trump Can’t Run From His Biggest Accomplishment: Overturning Roe

by Bill Scher April 9, 2024April 9, 2024

Trump says abortion laws are up to the states. But some of the swing states already have extreme bans. More in our April 9, 2024 newsletter.

Newsletter

Will DeSantis’s Terrible Governing Give Florida to Biden?

by Bill Scher April 4, 2024April 9, 2024

Plus, Biden’s secret weapon: Kamala Harris, the case against selling U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel, which states help college grads find jobs, and more in the April 4, 2024, Washington Monthly Newsletter.