Capitalism

Why Capitalists Care About Our Record-Low Birth Rate

Our ruling class, like ruling classes throughout history, cares intensely about how many kids we have and how much it will cost them. If we continue to think of the establishment as a neutral arbiter, and the abortion fight as a squabble between ordinary people, we’ll miss what is really at stake. The ruling class

Equality

Women’s wages fall by at least 5% after abortion…

Women’s average wages fall after abortion restrictions are enacted in their home state, as some either stop working or take lower-paying jobs, finds a comprehensive new analysis, set to be published next year in the Indiana Law Journal. Why it matters: The study expands on other research, looking at decades of data across the U.S., and points toward a grim

Patriarchy

The Democrats have been embarrassingly useless on abortion.

Observers of American politics should by now know the Democratic Party is a feckless, corrupt institution incapable of meeting the challenges of our time — congenitally averse to fighting for its principles, to the extent that it actually has any. But even the most jaded cynics have to be shocked at just how useless the

Equality

The Roe ruling is not about states’ rights. It’s…

From The Guardian It’s tempting to blame rightwing evangelicals for what happened last week – but big business also benefits from our loss of autonomy. When I was younger, my ideas about justice, religion, and harm were burgeoning and confused. Then I learned more. I studied and met Black women who were fighting for full reproductive justice:

Democracy

If US abortion rights keep slipping, dark days are…

Take it from an Irish woman: I am a woman in America who can bear children, and this means that there are powerful people coming for me, with detailed and strategic plans to control my body. Sounds dramatic, doesn’t it? It is dramatic, more so because it’s a straight-up fact. In 2021, state legislatures enacted