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The Bollard •

ICE is in town, and it’s heating up

On January 6th, I am sitting in my car across from Mount Pleasant Cemetery. It is a normal day, though the start of an unseasonably warm week. I have just dropped my mother off at a meeting, and I am sitting in the car listening to Trump rewrite the January 6th Insurrection, calling the rioters peaceful and spirited and just overall great guys. It really is a lovely day outside. It’s the kind of day when you just know Winnie-the-Pooh and his buddies are...
The Bollard •

I heard angels and saw demons in the MRI machine

It’s a tough world these days. On the day of the October No Kings rallies, I had an MRI to see if we could get any goddamn information about all these fucking concussions I keep getting. The machine reminded me of the Maine State Museum before its renovation, the dark rooms and the creepy wax guys frozen in mid-life. 


Or rather, it reminded me of a similar museum at the edge of my mind’s eye’s vision, one that had a little hut in the mi...
The Bollard •

Trees too old to die, potatoes too pretty to eat

When does time begin to pass quickly for a long-living tree? Surely any youth a tree experiences is as agonizingly slow as our own. When The Senator, a cypress in Florida, burned down in 2012 at age 3,500, did it feel relief or was it afraid?


The Senator was the fifth-oldest tree at its time of death. Methuselah, a bristlecone pine growing in the mountains of Eastern California, is thought to be the oldest, at over 4,800 years. King’s ho...
The Bollard •

The Touch of Strangers

I came home from Brooklyn for the holidays and spent New Year’s Eve watching a ball drop in my new home on a shitty TV in my old home. Times Square is a horrible scene in the best of times: headache-inducing neon lights blazing day and night; the zombified, mutilated corpse of Elmo trying to corner you aboard a double-decker tour bus. On New Year’s, the horrors only multiply. Thousands of tourists and drunkards shout and blast vuvuzelas, cough and shove you. And yet...
Ms. Magazine •

How Abortion Providers Are Planning for a Ruling That Could Force Mifepristone Off the Market

The ruling in a lawsuit out of Texas seeking to reverse FDA approval of mifepristone is expected as soon as this week. If Trump-appointed District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk rules in favor of the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the far-right group bringing suit, mifepristone would be forced off the market and clinics’ capacities could significantly fall.


The Trust Women clinic in Wichita, Kansas—where abortion is currently legal up to 21 weeks—already gets more than 16,000 calls a day a...
Ms. Magazine •

Telehealth Providers Prepare for the Future

Providers of reproductive and gender-affirming care have long been pushing for an increase in the use of telemedicine. Patients want it too: telehealth implementation comes with decreased costs, wait times and travel. For stigmatized issues like abortion and gender-affirming care, it also ensures patients and providers alike face less harassment, and makes niche treatments more widely accessible.


To understand the telehealth landscape and how it impacts reproductive care, Ms. spoke with teleh...
Ms. Magazine •

A Century-Long Effort to Secure the ERA: 'The Important Thing Is To Keep Fighting'

Next year the U.S. will mark 100 years since the introduction of the Equal Rights Amendment to Congress. Of the milestone, Gloria Steinem remarked, “I never thought we would still be fighting this battle after all these years.” 





Steinem, along with Carol Jenkins, president emerita of the ERA Coalition, and Mona Sinha, board chair of the ERA Fund for Women’s Equality, formed a panel at Smith College on Sept. 16. Joined by moderator Becca Damante, a Congressional legislative aide, the three...
Ms. Magazine •

In the Wake of Roe, Violence Will Increase. Healthcare Workers Must Be Protected

A newly released report on anti-abortion violence by the National Abortion Federation (NAF) documents significant increases in violence and threats of violence against abortion providers in the run-up to the Court’s decision in Dobbs and the challenges faced by providers during the pandemic. In the wake of Roe, violence will continue to increase.


NAF released its report on the morning of June 24. Only hours later, the Supreme Court overturned the longstanding precedents of Roe v. Wade. In re...
Ms. Magazine •

Status of Abortion Laws, State by State

Last updated: July 21, 2023, at 9:15 a.m. PT / 12:1 p.m. ET.

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 24 ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, state lawmakers are now free to craft their own abortion regulations, subject only to each state constitution—meaning state-level litigation and legislation has become the new frontlines for reproductive rights and access.


As a result, abortion laws are changing daily as legislatures across the U.S. pass new protections or strip away existing ones. Go...
Ms. Magazine •

Our Abortion Stories: “The Word ‘Freedom’ Is Hypocrisy When Women Lose the Right To Control Their Own Bodies”

On June 24, the Supreme Court overturned the longstanding precedents of Roe v. Wade, representing the largest blow to women’s constitutional rights in history. A series from Ms., Our Abortion Stories, chronicles readers’ experiences of abortion pre- and post-Roe. Abortions are sought by a wide range of people, for many different reasons. There is no single story. Telling stories of then and now shows how critical abortion has been and continues to be for women and girls.


The fall of Roe will...
Ms. Magazine •

Thousands of Medical Professionals Urge Supreme Court To Uphold Roe: 'Provide Patients With the Treatment They Need'

Any day now, the Supreme Court will issue its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which many predict will overturn or severely gut Roe v. Wade. Since the start of the Dobbs v. Jackson hearings in December, medical professionals have warned of the drastic health impacts brought on by abortion bans. Now, over 2,500 healthcare professionals from all 50 states have signed a letter urging the Supreme Court to scrap their leaked Dobbs draft opinion and uphold Roe.  


Within 30...
Ms. Magazine •

Our Abortion Stories: 'The Baby’s Life Came First, Apparently, so I Was Sent Home'

The Supreme Court is poised to overrule the longstanding precedents of Roe v. Wade, representing the largest blow to women’s constitutional rights in history. A new series from Ms., Our Abortion Stories, chronicles readers’ experiences of abortion pre- and post-Roe. Abortions are sought by a wide range of people, for many different reasons. There is no single story. Telling stories of then and now shows how critical abortion has been and continues to be for women and girls.


Prior to Roe, thos...