Opinion Civil Rights - The Boston Globe

Dr. Caitlin Bernard, who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old girl, in Indianapolis in September 2022.

The latest antiabortion tactic: Silencing doctors

Restrictions on their speech will force physicians onto the front lines of the issue. Will that backfire against abortion opponents? 4:45 p.m.

Donald Trump says he wants to order the end of the constitutional right to citizenship for babies born in the United States to noncitizens or unauthorized immigrants.

Birthright citizenship is safe from Donald Trump’s whims

The principle that anyone born on US soil is a US citizen has been enshrined in the Constitution since 1868. 3:00 a.m.

A bullet-damaged prayer book found in the aftermath of the Tree of Life shooting was introduced as a court exhibit, May 30, in the federal trial of Robert Bowers in Pittsburgh. Bowers went on trial Tuesday, more than four years after an attack on the Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 worshippers and wounded six others.

The rise in antisemitism should concern us all

This is not a problem only for Jews but for all Americans. 5:42 p.m.

Why a 25-year-old lynching should still haunt America

White supremacists murdered James Byrd Jr. in Texas. The racist extremism they espoused is now this nation’s biggest terrorist threat. 2:56 p.m.

Artist Jonathan Martinez, 22, center, whose Mexican parents first worked on farms when they arrived in the United States more than two decades ago, held a sign along with his sister Paola, right, a 19-year-old cosmetology student, against Florida Senate bill 1718, which imposes restrictions on undocumented immigrants, on June 1 in Immokalee, Fla. Paola held a sign that read, in Spanish, "We are this country's strength," while another woman's sign read, "We are here and we aren't leaving."

What Florida would look like without immigrants

In an entirely predictable turn of events, Governor Ron DeSantis seems to be caught in his own cycle — the one where Republican presidential hopefuls try to outdo each other on immigration policy. 5:03 p.m.

Antiabortion demonstrators outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Fairview Heights, Ill., in 2022.

Ideas

Don’t rule out a national abortion ban in 2025

Activists think they have a path to stopping abortions nationwide. It runs through the White House, the Supreme Court, and an arcane 19th-century law. 4:57 p.m.