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Many patients take mifepristone and misoprostol, the same regimen used for medication abortion, for management of pregnancy complications, such as miscarriages that occur within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

BY RIEHAM OWDA | Oral arguments for Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, Et Al. v. U.S. Food & Drug Administration at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals are scheduled for Wednesday, May 17, at 2 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. CT—the next step in a legal battle sparked by an unprecedented order in April that attempted to suspend the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, a commonly used abortion medication. (More details about the livestream can be found here). 

As an obstetrician and gynecologist providing abortion care in the Midwest, I’m fervently hoping mifepristone will remain available—not only for my patients seeking to end a pregnancy, but also for those who have miscarried.

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Abortion rights supporter Faith Halstead chants along with other protesters near the Florida State Capitol, where state senators voted to pass a proposed sic-week abortion ban in Tallahassee, on April 3, 2023. (The Washington Post via Getty Images)

BY JILL FILIPOVIC | Where voters are allowed to have a say, they give a resounding “yes” to abortion rights. Instead of adjusting their politics accordingly, the GOP just makes it harder for voters to vote.

There is a direct relationship between authoritarianism and opposition to abortion rights. After all, what is more authoritarian and more a rejection of basic individual freedoms, than believing the government should be able to force you into pregnancy and motherhood?

(This essay is part of Women’s Rights and Backsliding Democracies project—a multimedia project made up of essays, video and podcast programming, presented by Ms., NYU Law’s Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network and Rewire News Group.)

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A photograph of Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) pumping his fist toward the rioters on Jan. 6 is shown during a primetime hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the attack on the U.S. Capitol on July 21, 2022. (Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images)

BY ROB OKUN | Ideas about men and manhood have been evolving for more than 50 years, but Sen. Josh Hawley (D-Mo.) has not gotten the message. His new book, Manhood: Finding Purpose in Faith, Family, and Country ignores the realities of today’s men—more and more of whom are abandoning traditional expressions of masculine culture. Support among younger men for women’s reproductive rights, for gay and trans rights, for voting rights, is especially on the rise.

Fifty years ago, Hawley may have sold a lot of books. Today, I’m betting they’ll be remaindered by the Fourth of July.

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