Anna Bernstein, Author at Ms. Magazine

No, Abortion Pills Aren’t Polluting U.S. Waterways

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:18:53 +0000

Abortion pills are a critical option for people seeking to end a pregnancy, especially those living in U.S. states with abortion bans who cannot travel out of state for care. In 2023, medication abortion accounted for 63 percent of all clinician-provided abortions in states without total bans.

Given the pivotal role of these medications in preserving abortion access, antiabortion policymakers and advocates are resorting to increasingly unscientific, unconventional tactics to spread mis- and disinformation about medication abortion and about mifepristone, one of two drugs used in most medication abortions in the United States.

In a disturbing new strategy, antiabortion policymakers are attempting to weaponize environmental laws and regulations, citing false claims that medication abortion pollutes U.S. waterways and drinking water.

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How Project 2025 Seeks to Obliterate Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:00:00 +0000

Project 2025 promotes a presidential agenda that rolls back civil and human rights and implements extremist conservative policies across every federal department and agency. Its sweeping far-right policy framework, by the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, includes numerous attacks on sexual and reproductive health and rights.

This fact sheet enumerates some of the agenda’s most serious threats to sexual and reproductive health and describes potential effects.

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Supreme Court to Hear Two Key Cases on Abortion Access

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 18:06:23 +0000

Rather than being done with the issue of abortion, the Supreme Court has taken up two cases this term that could have further disastrous effects on abortion access. One case could lead to limits on access to one of the two drugs used for medication abortion, and the other could allow states to ban emergency abortion care to save a patient’s life.

Decisions in both cases would have effects nationwide—illustrating the chaos and confusion that the Dobbs decision has created for providers and patients.

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Five Actions the Biden Administration Can Take To Expand and Protect Abortion Access

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 18:27:00 +0000

The Biden–Harris administration alone cannot solve the abortion access crisis that will worsen now that Roe is officially overturned—but it is not without options to act. By exploring the five avenues discussed here, the administration can help mitigate the harm that is about to come.

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Medication Abortion Is Safe and Effective—It’s Time Everyone Has Equal Access

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 19:17:00 +0000

The past few months have seen escalating attacks on abortion access, with states passing increasingly restrictive and unconstitutional laws. But policymakers can help ensure that abortion is more accessible by allowing easier access to medication abortion care.

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