It’s Monday, I’m very near Substack’s length limit, my children are dragging their feet getting ready, and I still have to shower, leaving me with neither time nor space for chitchat.
Abortion
SCOTUSblog | Court leaves Texas’ six-week abortion ban in effect and narrows abortion providers’ challenge | Amy Howe
CNN | What the Texas abortion decision portends for reproductive rights | Mary Ziegler
HuffPost | I Had An Abortion At 25 Weeks, 6 Days. Faced With The Same Horrific Choice, I'd Do It Again. | Molly Hawkey
Los Angeles Times | The Supreme Court's ruling won't restore access to abortion in Texas anytime soon | Editorial
Los Angeles Times | Supreme Court decision on Texas abortion law puts all of our constitutional rights in jeopardy | Erwin Chemerinsky
MSNBC | Texas abortion providers get a win. But not the win they wanted. | Jessica Levinson
The Nation | The Supreme Court’s Texas Abortion Ruling Isn’t the Victory Many Want It to Be | Elie Mystal
New York Times | With This Supreme Court, What’s Next for Abortion Rights? | Spencer Bokat-Lindell
Salon | Abortion rights should be protected under the First Amendment | Lloyd Steffen
Slate | The Faith-Based Case for Saving Abortion Rights | Dahlia Lithwick
USA Today | Should race be an issue in the abortion debate? Anti-abortion activists are making it one. | Suzette Hackney
Vox | Don’t be fooled: The Supreme Court’s Texas abortion decision is a big defeat for Roe v. Wade | Ian Millhiser
Who was fooled, Ian. Who.Washington Post | States are already preparing for a possible future without Roe v. Wade | Hannah Knowles, María Luisa Paúl
Court Intrigue
Washington Post | The Supreme Court's Texas abortion ruling reveals the conservative majority's radicalism | Ruth Marcus
Slate | The Texas SCOTUS ruling reveals that John Roberts has lost control | Dahlia Lithwick
Slate | If John Roberts wants to save the Supreme Court, he should retire. | Jeremy Stahl
National Law Journal | Gorsuch Ignores Roberts' 30,000-Foot View of Texas Abortion Ban | Marcia Coyle
Austin American-Statesman | Supreme Court ruling on Texas abortion law was Neil Gorsuch's opinion | Nate Chute
Mother Jones | The Most Blistering Lines from Sotomayor’s Extraordinary Dissent in Today’s Abortion Ruling | James West
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Medication Abortion
Los Angeles Times | The FDA may be about to make the abortion pill more accessible | Ushma D Upadhyay
Prism | With the fate of abortion rights still unknown, doctors and activists call for advance provision of the abortion pill | Alexandra Martinez
The Ripple Effects
The Atlantic | The Court Invites an Era of Constitutional Chaos | Mary Ziegler
The Intercept | Supreme Court Ruling on Texas Abortion Law Opens Door to Copycat Schemes Everywhere | Jordan Smith
The New Republic | The Supreme Court Gives the Green Light to More Texas-Style Bounty Laws | Matt Ford
Slate | The Supreme Court's Texas abortion decision is a disaster for constitutional rights. | Mark Joseph Stern
Texas Tribune | “Every constitutional right is now at risk": Legal experts warn Supreme Court action on Texas abortion law could lead to copycats | James Barragan, Cassandra Pollock
California
Los Angeles Times | In response to Texas abortion law, Newsom calls for legislation to restrict assault weapons | Liam Dillon
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MORE Texas
New York Times | Small Court Victories Change Nothing for Women Seeking Abortions in Texas | J. David Goodman, Ruth Graham
The American Independent | Democrats ask Biden to protect reproductive health care in Texas | Lisa Needham
The 19th | 'This does not feel like a green light': Ruling changes little in Texas | Shefali Luthra
Newsweek | As Texas Law Is Upheld, Providing Abortion Pills by Mail Can Lead to Steep Fines, Jail | Xander Landen
Rolling Stone | Governor Trying to Outlaw Abortion Cares About Bodily Autonomy for [Checks Notes] Anti-Vaxxers | Peter Wade
Texas Tribune | Texas’ long fight over abortion rights continues with Supreme Court ruling | Eleanor Klibanoff
LGBTQ
CNN | Opinion: What Jussie Smollett's guilty verdicts tell us | Issac Bailey
Forbes | ‘Reproductive Rights Are Queer Rights:’ How To Motivate A Youth Movement | Dawn Ennis
LGBTQ Nation | Joe Biden appoints out gay man to lead the White House’s personnel office | Juwan Holmes
More from The Advocate, Los Angeles Blade
Los Angeles Times | Uber blocks transgender drivers from signing up: 'They didn't believe me' | Suhauna Hussain
Metro Weekly | GLAAD joins 600+ writers, artists, and advocates to oppose efforts to censor LGBTQ books | John Riley
USA Today | Dangerous wait for freedom: Hurdles abound for transgender migrants seeking asylum in US | Rebecca Morin
Washington Blade | State Department launches new global LGBTQ rights fund | Michael K. Lavers
Washington Post | The number of gay bars has dwindled. A new generation plans to bring them back. | Casey Parks
California
The 19th | California wants to expand gender-inclusive bathrooms in schools | Nadra Nittle
Minnesota
Star Tribune | For family of trans child, idyllic life in Hastings is no more | Reid Forgrave
New Jersey
NJ.com | Same-sex marriage could soon be enshrined in N.J. law | Matt Arco
More from Los Angeles Blade, New Jersey Monitor
New York
Metro Weekly | Transgender teen being forced to leave Boy Scout troop, despite policy allowing female scouts | John Riley
Virginia
Richmond Times-Dispatch | Williams: In failing its transgender students, Hanover schools takes another walk on the wrong side of history. | Michael Paul Williams
Health & Justice
The Hill | The Supreme Court majority's callous disregard for marginalized women | Sonia M. Suter
Business Insider | The Millennial Baby Boom Probably Isn't Going to Happen | Hillary Hoffower
Salon | Modern American sex education is lacking. Please, take a page from the Dutch | Allison Jack
USA Today | With abortion in spotlight, can Biden reverse 'devastating' drop in family planning program? | Maureen Groppe
USA Today | Health of Black, Native moms key in fight to improve infant death disparities, experts say | Nada Hassanein
Washington Post | If the Supreme Court undermines Roe v. Wade, contraception could be banned. This explains how. | Kevin Wallsten, Rachel VanSickle-Ward
California
Fresno Bee | “I probably cried every day.” Tulare County jails denying prenatal care, ACLU says | Yesenia Amaro
Colorado
Greeley Tribune | Even with Colorado’s open accessibility, birth control can still be difficult to access | Jadyn Watson-Fisher
Connecticut
CT Insider | 7 takeaways from our yearlong investigation of intimate partner violence | Clare Dignan
Massachusetts
Boston Globe | This is what menstrual equity looks like | Sasha Goodfriend, Bria Gadsden
Minnesota
MinnPost | ‘Beyond any touch of mercy’: Black and Indigenous maternal health in Minnesota | Rachel R. Hardeman, Katy Backes Kozhimannil
Star Tribune | Women in Minn. politics face growing threats, intimidation | Hunter Woodall