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abortion rights

The Tax Bill's Hidden Culture War

How the congressional tax bill will exploit changes to higher education to fight the culture wars.

By Ben Miller

A Hundred Years Later, the Fight Continues

On October 16, 1916, Margaret Sanger took a momentous stand for reproductive health when she opened the country's first birth control clinic.

By Claire Potter

Why Kennedy Chose Abortion Rights

Why did Justice Anthony Kennedy, a conservative often seen as a wild card on abortion, help issue a Supreme Court decision many are calling one of the greatest victories for abortion rights in the past quarter-century?

By Scott Lemieux