Roe v. Wade 
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SOURCE: Politico
6/8/2022
What to Expect after Roe, Based on Research
by Diana Greene Foster
The author has systematically studied the consequences to women of having an abortion or having that freedom denied. She explains what to expect when states are free to outlaw abortion: more child poverty, more maternal death, and reduced opportunities for women, with the poor getting the worst of it.
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6/5/2022
What Would Madison Think of Originalism? Depends When You Asked Him
by Don Fraser
James Madison moved away from a strict constructionist position based on public necessity and acceptance of legislation based in implied powers. Whatever one can say about the originalist legal theory behind the leaked Dobbs opinion, it's not Madisonian.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
5/18/2022
Historians Disagree with Alito: Roe Didn't Create Polarization
by Adam Serwer
The idea that the 1973 Roe decision created polarized politics around the Supreme Court ignores the decades-long backlash to Brown v. Board of Education and other decisions of the Warren Court and the contested politics of abortion before Roe.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/23/2022
The Imminent Demise of Roe Signals More Christian Nationalist Attacks on Secular America
by David Sehat
Christian conservatives are targeting not just abortion or contraception, but the broader idea of a secular American republic.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
5/23/2022
Law Prof: Securing Abortion Rights Means Finalizing the ERA
by Kate Kelly
The ERA would anchor a constitutional right to gender equality that could support a legal defense of abortion rights, and has already met the technical requirements for ratification.
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SOURCE: NPR
5/13/2022
Historian Leslie Reagan on the History of Abortion and Abortion Rights
Leslie Reagan explains that there's more to the history of abortion rights than the laws cited by Samuel Alito criminalizing the procedure.
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SOURCE: Salon
5/14/2022
We're Facing the Results of the Dems' Retreat from Secularism
by Jacques Berlinerblau
By trying to match the Republicans on bringing Christian faith into policy, Democrats abandoned the difficult but necessary struggles to define how a diverse society protects religious freedom for majority and minority faiths – and those of no faith.
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SOURCE: Observer
5/16/2022
Will Businesses Get Beyond Superficial Feminist Gestures when Abortion Rights are at Stake?
by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
Businesses have successfully integrated ideas about female empowerment into their marketing strategies. What will happen when women's status as both consumers and citizens is threatened by the rollback of reproductive rights?
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/5/2022
The Antiabortion Movement's Victory in the War of Language
by Jennifer L. Holland
The antiabortion movement was able to overcome American skepticism of enshrining religious views into law and demands by women for full citizenship by turning the language of rights to apply to fetuses. It remains to be seen if this language will lead to a national ban on abortion in the name of fetal personhood.
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SOURCE: Substack
5/3/2022
Republican Right is Forcing the Birth of the Society it Wants (and Most Americans Don't)
by Claire Potter
"Memo to radical conservative activists: despite your wettest fantasies, “libs” don’t cry at moments like this. We get angry, really angry. And we fight."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/3/2022
Originalists Seriously Misconstrue the Constitution's Silences on Abortion
by Laura Briggs
Samuel Alito would argue that the Constitution's silence on abortion means the founders recognized no right to it. But it's more likely they understood abortion to be a common act that didn't intersect with the business of the government.
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SOURCE: CNN
4/19/2022
The Republicans are Accelerating the War on Abortion Rights
Although two thirds of Americans favor some abortion rights, legal historian Mary Ziegler says the new composition of the Supreme Court means state legislatures will boldly pursue what they really want: totally outlawing abortion.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/25/2022
Law Prof: KBJ Hearings Show Right Won't Stop at Smashing Roe v. Wade
by Melissa Murray
Conservative skepticism of "unenumerated rights" indicates that they seek a judicial regime that peels back a host of rights implicit in the constitution that protect intimate freedom and the liberty of minority groups.
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SOURCE: Substack
12/3/2021
Every Woman Needs Access to Abortion
by Claire Potter
"If SCOTUS overturns Roe, every civil right that Americans have gained since the 1940s is up for grabs. That’s not partisan propaganda: that’s the truth."
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
12/1/2021
Wednesday's Arguments Signal the End of Roe
by Mary Ziegler
"Today’s oral argument signaled that the Court is poised to reverse Roe outright when it decides Dobbs, probably sometime in June or early July," says a leading legal historian of abortion rights.
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SOURCE: New York Magazine
12/2/2021
Rebecca Traister: Betrayal of Roe Decades in the Making
Liberal anger at the prospect of SCOTUS overturning the right to abortion needs to grapple with why liberalism ignored the right's long-building anti-majoritarian movement when it threatened the needs of mostly marginalized people.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/29/2021
An Unknown Supreme Court Clerk Created the "Viability" Standard in Roe v. Wade
by James Robenalt
An improbable series of events brought Larry Hammond to clerk for Justice Lewis Powell, and to devise the principle that abortion should be legal before the viability of the fetus.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
11/30/2021
Mississippi Judge Refuses to be Gaslit about State's History in Abortion Rights Case
Judge Carlton Reeves rejected Mississippi's cynical argument, now before the Supreme Court, that its new abortion ban seeks to protect women and African Americans, calling the law a revival of the "old Mississippi" that sought above all to control them.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
10/6/2021
Reframing Abortion as a Public Good
by Judith Levine
"States have a compelling interest—a profound obligation—to defend the right to abortion. Abortion is a public good. Why haven’t we linked abortion to the commonweal?"
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/12/2021
Texas Allows Abortion to Save a Woman's Life. Right?
American hospitals by the 1950s formed "therapeutic abortion committees" to rule whether individual women needed abortions to protect their lives. Those committees' decisions reflected religious morality, class and racial prejudice, and other subjective perceptions of a patient's worthiness.
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