The hurricane split pine trees like toothpicks. It chewed up chain link fences and laid highway billboards flat on their faces. It peeled the roof off Tropicana Field, where the Tampa Bay Rays play, and uncorked dozens of tornadoes, including one that ripped through a retirement community in St. Lucie County, Florida, killing six.

By the time Milton was finally over the Atlantic, it had left some $50 billion worth of damage behind, at least 24 dead, and one-third of the state’s gas stations empty.

But in a state where residents...

Apple Original Films has just dropped the trailer for Bread & Roses, a documentary feature — directed by Sahra Mani and produced by Jennifer Lawrence and Malala Yousafzai — about the plight of women in Afghanistan in the aftermath of the 2021 withdrawal from the country of the United States and fall of Kabul to the Taliban.

The film, which Lawrence and her Excellent Cadaver producing partner Justine Ciarrocchi initiated and hired Afghan filmmaker Mani (A Thousand Girls Like Me) to direct, follows three courageous Afghani women as they resist efforts to rob them of the autonomy they had acquired in recent decades.

Yousafzai, the Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize-winning champion of girls education, signed on as an executive producer to further highlight the film’s urgent message, joined by the Iranian composer Farhad Khosravi.

Bread & Roses had its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where it garnered strong reviews (it is...

Sally Field is sharing her “horrific story” of the illegal abortion she underwent when she found herself pregnant at the age of 17 before the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Roe v. Wade.

The two-time Oscar winner indicates, in an Instagram video she posted Sunday, that the experience is a reason to support the Democratic presidential ticket of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, whom Field has endorsed, as well as other candidates and ballot initiatives “that could protect reproductive freedom,” she writes in the caption accompanying the video.

And then, in all caps, she writes, “Please. We Can’T Go Back!!”

In the video, Field recalls her feeling and circumstances when she found out she was pregnant at such a young age.

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“I had no choices in my life; I didn’t have a lot of family support or finances,...

“Red, White and Blue” – an Academy Award nominated short film dealing with emergency access to abortions — will roll out a series of celebrity-hosted screenings across the country to raise the issue before November’s presidential election.

Directed by Nazrin Choudhury and starring Brittany Snow, the project has been praised as “a film for right now, and we need it to be seen urgently by as many people as possible,” according to Jane Fonda, who sits on the host committee of a forthcoming screening. The rollout is spearheaded by Level Forward, and benefits numerous reproductive rights organizations.

Snow plays a single mom working as a waitress in Arkansas, one who urgently seeks an abortion but must flee across state lines. Traveling to Illinois with her preteen daughter, Snow’s character shows us that the procedure’s purpose and emotional fallout are far from what they seem. Choudhury wrote the script in...

“Simply put, they are out of their minds,” said Kamala Harris about Donald Trump and the Republicans during her acceptance speech Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention.

Taking a strident tone against her Republican rival and the draconian Project 2025, the vice president warned her audience: “Just imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails.”

“In many ways Donald Trump is an unserious man, but the consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious,” Harris added in an often blistering 45-minute speech at Chicago’s United Center.

After a nearly week long buildup, Harris took the stage around 7:30 p.m. Pt/10:30 p.m. Et to a near-deafening cheer from the thousands of delegates and chants of “Yes, You Can!” in the Windy City. The roar in the arena hit a pitch so high it briefly pierced the ears for the first Black woman to be...

Arizona and Missouri will join a growing group of states holding ballot measures this November to codify the right to abortion into state law.

On Monday, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes certified that advocates had gathered 577,971 signatures in favor of the Arizona For Abortion Access Act, a proposed amendment that would certify the right to abortion into the state’s constitution. On Tuesday, Missouri approved a similar initiative that — if passed in November — would reverse the state’s all-but blanket ban on abortion.

The two states join Nevada, Arkansas,...

Hollywood is thrilled over Kamala Harris’ choice for a running mate.

On Tuesday morning, the vice president announced that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is her VP pick in her 2024 presidential bid. “As a governor, a coach, a teacher and a veteran, he’s delivered for working families like his. It’s great to have him on the team. Now let’s get to work,” she wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

Following the news, reactions from across the nation quickly began pouring in, including from high-profile figures in Hollywood and politics.

Vermont Senator and former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called Walz a “great asset” to Harris’ “winning” campaign. “He is a former public school teacher, football coach and strong union supporter. As governor, he delivered for working families in Mn. As VP, he will deliver for the working families of the US,” he wrote.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also shared her praise,...

Donald Trump chose J.D. Vance as his running mate largely as a signal of confidence in his own ability to retake the White House, but in the days following the Republican National Convention, Vance’s record has acted as anvil for the campaign — and a magnifying glass for concerns about a second Trump presidency. Nowhere is this more apparent than on issues related to reproductive rights and abortion access.

As president, Trump played a pivotal role in ending federal protections for abortion rights, as he appointed three Supreme Court justices...

Update: A Supreme Court order will allow emergency abortions to continue in Idaho despite a strict new state law.

The order, released today, is not a surprise: A document inadvertently posted to the court’s website on Wednesday was spotted by Bloomberg News, which reported on the pending decision.

The 6-3 ruling will allow for emergency abortions to continue in Idaho, despite a state law that restricted the procedure, even when a mother’s health was threatened. But the order was largely a procedural one in what is likely to be a lengthier legal proceeding. The broader question of when doctors can perform abortions during medical emergencies, despite a strict state law, was left unresolved.

Read the Supreme Court’s abortion order.

The court’s order dismisses the case, reversing an earlier ruling that had granted certiorari and allowed for the implementation of the Idaho law. Justice Elena Kagan wrote...

Joe Kent — the far-right Republican congressional candidate who lost his race in a shocking upset two years ago — has some thoughts about abortion. Kent thinks that years from now we, as a society, will look back on the current debate over access to reproductive care in this country in horror and disbelief.

And it’s hard to argue with that when there are women in Texas who, instead of being provided routine care, have been forced to give birth to stillborn children; when the state of Idaho is fighting for...

Like one of those fiendish knots that tighten the more you squirm, director Magnus von Horn’s Cannes competitor The Girl With the Needle builds to a devastating climax, taut as piano wire.

Danish actress Vic Carmen Sonne (Holiday, Godland) offers an understated but multi-layered performance as Karoline, a vulnerable but resilient seamstress living in post-World War I/early-1920s Copenhagen, who is left high and dry when her wealthy lover (Joachim Fjelstrup) gets her knocked up but won’t marry her. That leaves Karoline with only two options: give herself a bathtub abortion with a knitting needle or have the baby and hand it over to Dagmar (Trine Dyrholm), a sinister candy-store owner who runs a backstreet adoption agency.

Shot digitally, in black and white and using a claustrophobic 3:2 ratio by rising cinematographer Michal Dymek (A Real Pain, Eo), the film has the haunted, eerily still poise of antique photographs,...

2024 marks 40 years since experimental filmmaker Lynne Sachs took her first video class at Dctv, and in celebration, Dctv’s Firehouse Cinema in NYC will be presenting an extensive retrospective. Taking place June 7-11, the series features 24 of her films plus a sound-collage world premiere associated with her latest film, Contractions, which was a selection at True/False, Prismatic Ground, and DC/Dox 2024). The upcoming New York Times Op-Docs release, which takes us to Memphis, Tennessee where we contemplate the discontinuation of abortion services at a women’s health clinic, will premiere at the Nyt timed to the 2nd anniversary of Roe v Wade being overturned.

Titled Lynne Sachs: From the Outside In, the retrospective traverses Sachs’ documentary films, defiant of traditional genre or style. The program notes continue, “From peering out, collecting others’ experiences and world events, to looking inward, reflecting on familial histories and entanglements, Sachs weaves the political with the personal.

On Tuesday, the Arizona Supreme Court issued a ruling to reinstate a 160-year-old abortion ban, which resulted in immediate changes in stance among Republicans who had previously supported it, such as Senate candidate Kari Lake.

The Court overturned a 2022 law that permitted abortions up to 15 weeks, clearing the way for an 1864 ban that essentially prohibits the procedure except when necessary to save the life of the mother.

The state’s highest Court initially heard arguments on the case in December after the Arizona Court of Appeals determined that the two contradictory abortion bans needed to be “harmonized.”

In a 4-2 decision, the justices stated that the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the federal law safeguarding abortion rights until viability, meant that there was no legal barrier to enforcing the decades-old ban. The Court ruled that the law could be implemented within 14 days, and the parties involved were allowed to raise...

The Florida Supreme Court has cleared the way for a ban on abortions at six weeks gestation — before many women realize they are pregnant — to go into effect. At the same time, the justices on Monday approved a measure to be placed on the ballot this November that, if approved by 60 percent of voters, will enshrine the right to an abortion in the state’s constitution.

The court, stacked with ultra-conservative appointees of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, waited until the last possible moment to rule on the ballot measure — according to state law,...

Sidney Flanigan stars as Autumn and Talia Ryder as Skylar in ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ (Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features)

On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court issued its landmark 7–2 decision in Roe v. Wade, protecting a woman’s constitutional right to choose. Nearly a half-century later, on June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. In the year that has followed that decision, a flurry of new legislation on abortion has been introduced, with many women now finding themselves in states where abortion is unavailable or severely restricted. Without federal protections, state legislatures are now determining abortion access, with some states increasing restrictions or even banning access while others are improving and protecting it.

From the silent days to the present, films have tried to reflect changing attitudes toward abortion. But no matter how many stories are told, people complain that the issue has not been covered well enough...

Andy Beshear is staying in the governor’s mansion.

The Democratic governor has defeated Republican Daniel Cameron, Kentucky’s attorney general, in his bid for reelection. The Associated Press called the race at 8:57 p.m. Et.

Beshear, 46, retained a high approval rating throughout his first term leading the conservative state, and outpaced Cameron by double digits for much of the race. Those polls tightened considerably as Tuesday’s election neared, but Cameron was never able to overtake the sitting governor — who presided over record-low unemployment last year and earned...

President Joe Biden will address the nation on Thursday night (8/7c) to discuss the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict.

In a tweet (or “post”) on Thursday, Biden laid out the talking points for his address: “Hamas’ terrorist attacks against Israel, the need for humanitarian assistance in Gaza and Russia’s ongoing brutal war against Ukraine,” adding that “we are at a global inflection point that is bigger than party or politics.”

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Busy Philipps has shown fans her mastery as an actor, social media superstar, author, and talk show host, to highlight just a few of her talents.

However, there’s another that even her biggest fans may not realize: she’s also psychic.

Philipps shared that revelation during her appearance on the upcoming edition of the “Ghosted!” podcast, in which host Roz Hernandez interviews celebrities about their paranormal experiences.

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“Well, I think I’m very intuitive,” Philipps told Hernandez, as reported by Variety.

“But sometimes I just know things are going to happen,” Philipps continued.

“I sort of just see things in the future,” she added, “and then I have a lot of really psychic connections with people.

The full episode of “Ghosted!” drops July 24.

Washington, July 14 (Ians) The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first birth control pill to be sold without a prescription in the country.

The drug Opill (norgestrel) contains one hormone progestin, and is taken daily. It was first approved by the Fda as a prescription in 1973.

It provides an option for consumers to purchase oral contraceptive medicine without a prescription at drug stores, convenience stores and grocery stores, as well as online.

Availability of nonprescription Opill may help reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and their potential negative impacts.

“Today’s approval marks the first time a nonprescription daily oral contraceptive will be an available option for millions of people in the US,” said Patrizia Cavazzoni, MD, director of the Fda’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, in a statement.

“When used as directed, daily oral contraception is safe and is expected to be more effective than...

After multiple miscarriages, Kiersten Hogan thought she would never be able to carry a pregnancy to term. She’d nearly given up hope when in June 2021 she learned she was pregnant. But at just 19 weeks — days after Texas’ Senate Bill 8 went into effect — Hogan woke up at 5 a.m. in excruciating pain. She called 911 and was instructed to unlock her front door and lay on the ground until EMTs arrived. “It was the longest 5 minutes of my life,” Hogan recalled on Monday.

Her water had broken. By the time she arrived at the hospital,...

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 5 opens with shocking news from Mei Lin (Stephanie Hsu). Mei was pregnant and Joel Maisel (Michael Zegen) planned to marry her at the end of season 4. But marriage and a baby didn’t fit into Mei’s plans to become a doctor.

In an emotional scene, Mei tells Joel there is “no baby.” And that she plans to continue her pursuit of becoming a doctor in Chicago. The Maisel writers took care in addressing how the scene was handled. The word, “abortion” was not featured in the episode. But the actors and writing made it clear that Mei chose to terminate the pregnancy.

Mei could not have a legal abortion in New York in the ’60s

Mei appears to be physically unharmed by the procedure, but having an abortion pre-Roe vs. Wade, which passed in 1973, was often dangerous and deadly. In January 1973, “the Supreme Court...

Judge Janet Protasiewicz has been elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, giving liberals a majority on the court ahead of a decision that could determine the future of reproductive rights in the state. The Associated Press called the race just before 9 p.m. local time.

The race — between Protasiewicz and the conservative Daniel Kelly — was set spending records for , with more than $45 million having been spent ahead of Tuesday’s election. Protasiewicz will rule on several critical issues over the course of her 10-year term, but none is more immediately...

Give Me an A is a a horror, sci-fi, dark comedy response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade and will be screening Sunday April 2nd at 3:30 at the Overlook Film Festival. Ahead of the fest, I caught up with Natasha Halevi, who talked about the origins of this film, the quick turnaround on the project, tackling this important subject, and more:

Give Me an A was created as a response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. How did the idea of this project first come about?

On June 24th, 2022 Roe v. Wade was overturned. Like a lot women (and anyone of any gender affected) I crumpled to the ground sobbing. I felt powerless and totally out of control. I knew in many states people would be affected immediately. I heard the Clarance Thomas statement that contraception and same sex marriage would be next so I knew this...

Tonight, The Podcast Academy (Tpa), the preeminent professional podcast organization, announced winners across 26 categories at its third annual Awards for Excellence in Audio (The Ambies®) from the International Theater in Las Vegas hosted by Emmy Award-winning producer, writer, comedian, actor and podcast host Larry Wilmore. Additionally, “Stuff You Should Know” co-hosts Chuck Bryant, Josh Clark, and producer Jeri Rowland accepted this year’s Governors Award, an honor that recognizes the impact a podcast or individual has had on the industry.

The Ambies celebrate excellence in podcasting and elevate awareness and status of podcasts as a unique and personal medium for entertainment, information, storytelling and expression.

Community Building Sponsor Wondery highlighted Tpa’s Mentorship Program at the Ceremony and Platinum Sponsor Sonoro, introduced the upcoming Global Podcast Summit they are hosting with Tpa in June.

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Amanda Zurawski endured 18 months of “grueling” fertility treatment before she and her husband were able to conceive their daughter, Willow. She was in the middle of her second trimester, putting the finishing touches on the guest list for her baby shower, when she started experiencing what she thought of at the time as “curious” symptoms. Her cervix had dilated prematurely, and not long after, her water broke. Without amniotic fluid to protect her, Zurawski and her husband were informed Willow would not survive.

“I asked what can be done to...

Documentary-maker Tracy Droz Tragos’ timely, rousing latest feature Plan C represents a de facto sequel to her earlier work, 2016’s Abortion: Stories Women Tell in that both films revolve around one of the most contentious issues in American politics. But where Stories focused on the impact and experience of regular people terminating their pregnancy or those helping others to get a safe, legal surgical procedure, Plan C offers a portrait of those on the front line of the war over women’s right to choose: the founders and organizers who run Plan C. This grassroots organization advises women on the so-called abortion pills, and helps them acquire access to these drugs, which were recently declared safe by the Fda but are technically illegal in many states that have since banned abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

Obviously, the film has an intrinsic social utility in that...

Lorde’s younger sister Indy Yelich will release her debut single ‘Threads’ tomorrow (Thursday 15 September).

The song will be the first music publicly released by the aspiring New Zealand artist.

Yelich has, however, released poetry books in the past, giving us a taste of what to expect from her writing.

“My debut song “Threads” is out Thursday Sep 15. Can’t wait for you to hear. I’ve lived with this song on the subway, driving around blasting it in friends’ cars for a second now,” the 23-year-old wrote on Instagram.

The post also shared the single artwork, which pictures Yelich sat in the middle of a bed with the words “I would rather go to space” written several times over it.

There are obviously high expectations for Yelich’s music, given her 26-year-old sister Lorde’s success, with fans eager to see what the new single offers.

Yelich’s Instagram...

In the first trailer for “Call Jane,” it’s 1968 in Chicago, and Elizabeth Banks has just learned that she has only a 50 chance to live if she were to give birth. While her doctor recommends an emergency termination to the pregnancy to save her life, a medical board of men all votes “no” in performing the procedure and lets her know to her face.

“I’m here, I’m right here,” Banks says feebly in front of this body of men that barely notices her.

That’s the set up for this pre-“Roe v. Wade” era drama called “Call Jane,” which tells the true story of a group of women who lead an underground movement designed to help women get abortions they desperately need. The film shows how Banks goes from a woman in need to a woman on the front lines of the abortion fight.

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“Rule 34,” a challenging and sexually explicit film from Brazilian director Julia Murat, has emerged as the surprise winner of the Golden Leopard award at this year’s Locarno Film Festival — an edition where typically audacious and formally ambitious work dominated the program. Marking a strong ceremony for female filmmakers, the main competition jury at the Swiss festival also handed an impressive three awards — best director and a brace of acting prizes — to gritty coming-of-age drama “I Have Electric Dreams,” an auspicious debut feature from Costa Rican writer-director Valentina Maurel.

A character study of a young female law student pursuing a parallel calling in amateur online pornography — while defending female abuse victims in her day job — “Rule 34’s” title stems from the popular online meme that “if it exists, there’s a porn version of it.” Murat’s film wasn’t among the buzzier entries in this year’s competition,...

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Lin-Manuel Miranda and his hit Broadway musical Hamilton are partnering with Prizeo on Ham4Choice, a fundraising campaign to support organizations providing abortion access and other reproductive health services.

“We are devastated by the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling eliminating the right to abortion which has been a right since 1973,” the production said in a statement. “In response, we are teaming up with organizations providing support, access and travel expenses to those seeking these services.”

Announced Tuesday, the effort is part of the show’s larger Ham4Progress philanthropic platform, run by a collective of Hamilton cast members and staff. Launched in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision in June, the show — which has its own constitutional connection — said funds raised through Ham4Choice will support the Abortion Support Network,...

On May 15, 1999, Regina McKnight gave birth to a stillborn five-pound baby girl at Conway Medical Center in South Carolina. She named her Mercedes.

Five months later, McKnight — an unhoused Black woman — was arrested on charges of homicide by child abuse after her daughter’s autopsy indicated that McNight had used cocaine while pregnant. Following her trial, a jury found McKnight guilty, and she was subsequently sentenced to 20 years in prison. Although the conviction was reversed in 2008, McKnight had already lost eight years of her life being unjustly incarcerated.

According to...

The Orville‘s own Penny Johnson Jerald did tell TVLine that most every episode of Season 3 would give people something to talk about. And sure enough, in recent weeks alone the space adventure series has addressed the issues of suicide, abortion, and gender reassignment.

In fact, the June 23 episode’s exploration of abortion — including how the Krill aggressively seek to deter the practice (read recap) — aired the day before the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, ruling that the constitutional right to abortion no longer exists.

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Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong is fed up with the United States. During the band’s performance at the U.K.’s London Stadium on Friday, the lead singer and guitarist said he is renouncing his citizenship in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. “F— America. I’m f—ing renouncing my citizenship. I’m f—ing coming […]

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Exclusive: Filmmakers Ricki Stern and Anne Lundberg have seen this day coming. For a long time.

Their 2108 Netflix documentary Reversing Roe examined how right-wing activists, politicians and jurists were steadily chipping away at abortion rights across the country, with the goal of eventually overturning Roe v. Wade. Today it happened, in a 6-3 Supreme Court decision that tossed out Roe, permitting states to ban or severely restrict abortion.

“I think there was no surprise,” Stern said in an interview with Deadline after the ruling was announced. She said she felt “just absolute sadness and just despair, truly, because it’s the beginning of many, many kinds of Supreme Court decisions that, personally, I think are going to set us back. And as the film illustrates, this is a very politically charged issue, abortion rights. This is really about power and [ignores] the lives of many women who are going to be hurt by this decision.

For a brand that touts its genius at “storytelling,” the Magic Kingdom faces ever-growing problems in telling its own story.

Symbolically, Disney has just broken ground on what it portrays as a “storyliving community” of 1,700 new “storytelling homes” in the desert town of Rancho Mirage, CA. “We are story tellers at heart,” its publicity release reminds us.

Yet the announcement comes at a moment when the “Disney story” itself is getting bruised by politicians, employees call for walk-outs and the state of Florida is bent on annexing areas long accepted as part of the Disney domain. Even drought-stricken Rancho Mirage is balking over the story-tellers’ looming water demands.

Inevitably, Disney’s publicity chief has now been fired after a stormy three month tour of duty. Prior to joining Disney, Geoff Morrell had managed to represent Bp Petroleum through its oil spills and Defense Secretary Robert Gates through Mideast wars only...

“It has been a truly terrible week,” John Oliver said as he opened Last Week Tonight. “One that started with two Jared Letos at the Met Gala, and then somehow managed to get worse from there.”

He was referring, of course, to the leak of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s unhinged draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade and possibly opening the door to the reversal of other decisions that hinge on the right to privacy. That basic right has been codified in countries around the world for many decades...

UTA is taking a big step in the fight over women’s reproductive rights in the wake of the news that the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade and threaten access to abortions. The agency has agreed to reimburse colleagues for any travel expenses related to women’s reproductive health services that are not accessible in their state of residence.

The new benefit came in a memo from UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer to staffers, which TheWrap has obtained. It refers to the growing “threats against women’s reproductive rights.” While it’s unclear, the agency is likely the first to take such a step.

“We’re doing this to support the right to choose that has been a bedrock of settled law for almost half a century,” Zimmer wrote in part in reference to the leaked Supreme Court majority draft opinion, penned by Justice Alito. “UTA has...

Maine Senator Susan Collins has a lot of friends. First elected to the Senate in 1996, she developed a reputation as a reasonable, moderate Republican willing to work across the aisle to get things done. These years of niceties and moderation, culminating in her party-breaching vote to convict Donald Trump in his post-Jan. 6 impeachment trial, have turned Collins into one Democrats’ last remaining hopes for making progress in a deadlocked Congress, and a potential saving grace should the Grand Old Party decided to wholeheartedly embrace Trumpism once again.

Or, that’s...

When Happening won the Venice festival’s Golden Lion last month, the timing could not be ignored. Audrey Diwan’s drama centers on a young French woman’s illegal abortion in 1963. The award was announced less than two weeks after the United States Supreme Court refused to block a Texas law that bans the procedure in most cases. The court’s upcoming decision on a Mississippi law could overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that established the constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy safely.

The reality of abortion in many women’s lives, in defiance of cultural, religious and legal restrictions, is reflected in ...

When Happening won the Venice festival’s Golden Lion last month, the timing could not be ignored. Audrey Diwan’s drama centers on a young French woman’s illegal abortion in 1963. The award was announced less than two weeks after the United States Supreme Court refused to block a Texas law that bans the procedure in most cases. The court’s upcoming decision on a Mississippi law could overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that established the constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy safely.

The reality of abortion in many women’s lives, in defiance of cultural, religious and legal restrictions, is reflected in ...

What do these three people have in common: a disbarred Arkansas attorney under federal house arrest for tax evasion; another disbarred attorney, this one from Illinois, who lost his license for harassing and threatening other lawyers; and an attempted fire bomber from Kansas who served time in federal prison for conspiracy? Here’s the answer: All three of them have heeded Texas’s call for legal anarchy and filed complaints against a San Antonio abortion provider for violating SB8, the state’s ban on post-6 week abortions.

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After the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday night denied a request to issue emergency relief blocking Texas’ new law that bans abortion at six weeks and, say opponents, effectively eliminates access to abortions statewide, some big names in entertainment expressed their opinions about the legislation.

A group of prominent actors, musicians and other artists and companies swiftly responded to the news on social media. Reese Witherspoon, Alyssa Milano, Dua Lipa, Kerry Washington, St. Vincent, Eva Longoria Baston, Bad Robot and P!nk were among them. Many shared an image with the text, “I stand in solidarity with Texans & people everywhere seeking reproductive freedom.” The full list of the celebrities who support that sentiment is below; the vast majority of the signatories are women.

Washington also shared a link to a Planned Parenthood petition which, among other things, maintains that “health care — including safe, legal abortion — is a human right.

A central topic at the White House Daily Press Briefing on Thursday was the Supreme Court’s refusal to block a Texas anti-abortion law.

A standout moment came when a male reporter, Owen Jensen of Ewtn, a Catholic news network, pressed White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on President Joe Biden’s support for abortion rights while his Catholic faith does not.

“Why does the president support abortion when his own Catholic faith teaches abortion as morally wrong?” the reporter asked.

“He believes that it’s a woman’s right. It’s a woman’s body, and it’s her choice,” Psaki responded.

The reporter followed up. “Who does he believe, then, should look out for the unborn child?”

Psaki replied, “He believes that it is up to a woman to make those decisions, and up to a woman to make those decisions with her doctor. I know you have never faced those choices,...

For the first time in decades, the fundamental right to abortion is squarely being attacked in the Supreme Court. On Thursday, Mississippi filed a brief with the court directly asking it to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision establishing a right to abortion.

This hasn’t happened since 1992, in the case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey, when Pennsylvania asked the court to overturn Roe. Since then, as any observer knows, the court has heard many abortion cases, but none has featured the main brief asking the court to upend its precedent in this way.

The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will review the constitutionality of Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, which is a direct challenge to the protections codified by Roe v. Wade in 1973. The decision to hear the case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, is a victory for anti-choice activists and a signal that the court’s new conservative majority may be poised to roll back reproductive rights across the country.

Reproductive-rights organizations reacted to the decision with alarm. “This is the moment anti-abortion politicians have been waiting for since Roe v.

In February, a handful of actors from the abortion drama Roe v. Wade came forward to share frustrations that they had yet to be paid for their work on the film more than two years after wrapping production. It’s now May — and they’re still waiting.

Cathy Allyn, a co-writer, co-director and producer of the film, relayed in February that the funds had been released to SAG. “They have the money, and it’s up to SAG to release it,” said Allyn. Multiple actors tell The Hollywood Reporter that they have been contacting SAG for months attempting to get updates ...

“Scream” star and ’90s icon Jamie Kennedy plays abortion-rights advocate Larry Leder in the newly opened “Roe v. Wade,” Cathy Allyn and Nick Loeb’s anti-abortion propaganda film that unpacks the “conspiracy” that led to one of the most famous court cases of all time. Kennedy said he didn’t fully understand the film’s anti-abortion bent until production was under way. As he told The Daily Beast in a new interview, he was lured to the film because of its star power — namely, in the form of Jon Voight and Stacey Dash, among others.

“In Hollywood, a lot of people were talking about this movie, and first and foremost, I’m an actor. I act,” Kennedy said. “I’ve worked with Jon Voight twice before, and he’s one of the greatest actors ever. I thought it was an important story, and to be honest, I got offered the role.

To seriously consider “Roe v. Wade” — that is, writer-directors Cathy Allyn and Nick Loeb’s atrocious anti-abortion propaganda piece and not the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision in favor of abortion rights — it is helpful to remember a 2017 quote by journalist Chuck Todd. “Alternative facts are not facts. They’re falsehoods,” Todd succinctly said when confronting Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway on her use of the term. While the Trump era that Conway’s expression sums up is behind us, “Roe v. Wade” has reportedly been in the works for the past three years, so it’s fair to reflect on the baffling film as a product of that period, when right-wing fabrications were routinely presented as truth.

Targeting politically simpatico viewers and anyone they can convert on the other side of the aisle — while perhaps taking a page out of the former administration’s playbook — Allyn and Loeb present their own...

Emmy-winning producer and writer Alison Cross has signed with Buchwald for representation.

Cross has served as an executive producer on CBS’ S.W.A.T. under Shawn Ryan since the series’ premiere in 2017. Prior to that, she served as an executive prodcer on The Good Fight at CBS All Access.

She also served as a consulting producer on USA’s Queen of the South, as well as an executive producer on TNT’s legal drama Murder in the First, which reunited her with writer-producer Steven Bochco. Her additional producing credits include TNT’s Raising the Bar, ABC’s Commander in Chief and ABC’s legal drama Philly, which she co-created with Bochco.

Cross’ screenwriting credits include co-writing the 1996 film Blood and Wine, starring Jack Nicholson and Michael Caine.

In 2018, Cross received the WGA West’s Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award, an honor previously awarded to Aaron Sorkin, Garry Marshall, Shonda Rhimes and Larry David.

Stacey Dash is stepping out of the political limelight and even issuing an apology for her past outspoken support of former President Donald Trump.

In an interview with The Daily Mail published on Thursday, the Clueless star said anger is what drove her political stance and motivated her to be a conservative media contributor.

“I’ve lived my life being angry, which is what I was on Fox News,” said Dash, who currently stars in the Nick Loeb-directed drama Roe v. Wade. “I was the angry, conservative, Black woman. And at that time in my life, it was who I was. I ...