pregnancy 
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SOURCE: Patheos
6/27/2022
Who Will Now Bear Costs of Crisis Pregnancies?
by Daniel K. Williams
"Perhaps neither Roe nor Dobbs represents a fully Christian way to distribute the human costs associated with crisis pregnancies. And therein lies a dilemma for Christians who want to preserve human life and are unhappy with the results of Roe as well as the likely results of Dobbs."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/23/2022
When the Constitution Was Written, Abortion was a Choice Left to Women
by Lara Friedenfelds
"Before the 19th century, civil society regarded abortion as a private medical matter for married women, and a problem in need of occasional discipline when it was a sign of extramarital sex."
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SOURCE: Washington Post
10/17/2021
Early Pregnancy Testing Required Sacrificing Rabbits
Women have always had an interest in detecting pregancy as soon as possible; the development of tests for pregnancy hormones involved fugitives from the Nazis and unfortunate rodents who were autopsied in early tests.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/17/20
Eugenics is trending. That’s a problem.
by Caitlin Fendley
Any effort to slow population growth must center on reproductive justice.
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SOURCE: The Economist
1/30/20
The surprising history of “pregnancy portraits”
For centuries British artists edited baby bumps out of their work. Why?
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10/11/19
The History Briefing on Pregnancy Discrimination: What Historians Had to Say About This Week’s News
by Isabella DelPino
How historians discussed pregnancy discrimination this week.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
5/12/19
It’s time to stop viewing pregnant women as threats to their babies
by Kathleen Crowther
How Georgia is continuing a centuries-long tradition, and why it must stop.
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SOURCE: NY Times
5/8/19
Sarah Knott Looks at Pregnancy and Mothering Through the Ages
Knott, a professor at Indiana University, uses her own path to motherhood, which includes a miscarriage and two successful pregnancies, as the scaffolding for her engaging and pleasingly radical “unconventional history” of this subject.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
5/9/19
The key to lowering America’s high rates of maternal mortality
by Melissa Reynolds
Health-care providers have forgotten the central lesson of two millennia of gynecology.
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