Mother Jones - July/August 2022

In this issue

Having a baby is a joy for many families, but pregnancy is also a risky condition for women. With the Supreme Court’s conservative majority expected to overturn the constitutional right to abortion care, Mother Jones editors observe, in “The Right’s Way,” that Roe’s fall is just the beginning. Amy Littlefield profiles the man behind the Texas abortion ban who has an even more radical plan to reshape American law in “The Anti-Abortion Architect.” If abortion is illegal, will every pregnancy lost be a potential crime? This nightmare is explored in “Miscarriage of Justice” by Cecilia Nowell. Forced to give birth, prosecuted for miscarriages, then policed for raising kids? Researcher, Dorothy E. Roberts argues that child protective services needs to be abolished in “Torn Apart.” And Tom Philpott looks at a well-tested method for staving off world hunger. Read on to learn who is trapped inside an “echo chamber,” and discover the teenage novelist who used Oakland’s police sex trafficking scandal as inspiration.

Debtors' Vision

How a group of Occupiers pushed Biden to embrace student debt relief

6 mins

Florida Man: Bananas Republican

How Alfie Oakes made himself a MAGA magnate

6 mins

THE ANTI-ABORTION ARCHITECT

The man behind the Texas abortion ban now has an even more radical plan to reshape American law.

10+ mins

MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE

If abortion is illegal, will every pregnancy lost be a potential crime?

5 mins

God's Plan

Christian anti-abortion activists are gearing up to go after birth control. And they have surprising allies.

7 mins

Torn Apart

I have studied child protective services for decades. It needs to be abolished.

10+ mins

The Mother Trap

Kerry King never hurt her children. Why is she in prison for more time than the man who abused her daughter?

10+ mins

Zen and the Art of Political Espionage

How did a Gore-Tex heir and onetime Transcendental Meditation devotee end up bankrolling America's strangest right-wing spy op?

10+ mins

GRIN AND BEAR IT

Why haven't we figured out how to make IUDs less excruciating?

4 mins

Food for Thought: With the Grain

A simple, well-tested method for staving off world hunger

3 mins

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