The fall of Roe's lesser-known sabotage

The MoJo Daily newsletter, Monday through Friday. [View in browser]( [Support our nonprofit journalism]( [Mother Jones Daily Newsletter](     June 24, 2024 How many abortions have been conducted since the Supreme Court overturned Roe? Where are they being performed? What does the demographic look like? There are some clues out there. But in the two years since Dobbs, one thing is certain: These questions and far more are not easy to answer. One [recent study]( shows more abortions than before Dobbs, but on the whole, as my colleague Jackie Flynn Mogensen reports, studies related to abortion have been [delayed, limited, and outright canned]( after the ruling. The result has been a devastating loss in data and scientific research at a time when understanding this landscape couldn't be more critical. [Jackie writes](: In a questionnaire, some two dozen reproductive health researchers shared their experiences with their own institutional review boards. Most reported some kind of challenge, like confusion over state laws, increased scrutiny of abortion-related work, and at least one researcher’s total inability to get studies greenlit. Even projects not obviously associated with abortion, Mosley says, were affected by Dobbs. Some universities, for instance, are now requiring “full board review” for any study involving pregnancy. When knowledge is power, what happens when information goes dark? People, especially society's most vulnerable, needlessly suffer. And two years after the fall of Roe, this suffering has crept into nearly every crevice of health care and [straight into the GOP mainstream](. We'll see if Democrats can successfully get that [message across today]( and every day leading to November. —Inae Oh P.S. The second installment of [Reveal's 40 Acres and a Lie is out now](. Listen to hear what happened when reporters from the Center of Public Integrity went to Skidaway Island, home to a lavish community that was once promised to formerly enslaved people. Advertisement [Swing Left]( [Top Story] [Top Story]( [Overturning Roe Didn’t Just Cut Off Access. It Sabotaged Science, Too.]( After Dobbs, scientists say their research has been delayed, limited, and blocked. BY JACKIE FLYNN MOGENSEN SPONSORED POST     [Sponsored Content]( [The Looming Threat of Christian Nationalism]( Christian nationalists want to create a Christian nation. THIS CONTENT WAS PAID FOR AND SPONSORED BY [AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE](. [Trending] [Trump's latest smear against migrants? Sign them up as brutal UFC fighters.]( BY JULIANNE MCSHANE   [Melting? Fossil fuels have made extreme heat 35 times more likely.]( BY RUTH MURAI   [Why bias against pro-Palestinian protesters matters for everyone]( BY NAJIB AMINY   [Finally, the American Climate Corps is getting down to business]( BY KATE YODER Advertisement [Swing Left]( [Special Feature] [Special Feature]( [Trad wives are thriving in the post-Dobbs era]( The influencers may seem harmless—until you consider them amid the erosion of women's rights. BY MORGAN JERKINS MOTHER JONES MEMBERSHIP UPDATE   GREAT JOURNALISM, SLOW FUNDRAISING Our team has been on fire lately—publishing sweeping, [one-of-a-kind]( investigations, ambitious, [groundbreaking]( projects, and even [releasing]( “the holy shit documentary of the year.” And that’s on top of [protecting free and fair elections]( and [standing up]( to bullies and BS when others in the media don’t. Yet, we just came up pretty short on our fundraising campaign. So even though we’re done screaming about [the donations we need]( for a while, if you value the journalism we do but haven’t pitched in recently, please [consider doing so now](—we urgently need a lot of help to make up for lost ground. And of course, THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone who has pitched in. It means the world to us. [Donate]( Did you enjoy this newsletter? Share it on [Facebook]( and [Twitter](. [Mother Jones]( [Donate]( [Donate Monthly]( [Subscribe]( This message was sent to {EMAIL}. To change the messages you receive from us, you can [edit your email preferences]( or [unsubscribe from all mailings.]( For advertising opportunities see our online [media kit.]( Were you forwarded this email? [Sign up for Mother Jones' newsletters today.]( [www.MotherJones.com]( PO Box 8539, Big Sandy, TX 75755