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SOURCE: Mother Jones
8/1/2022
The Battle over Reproductive Freedom Still Rages at Dr. George Tiller's Former Clinic
"It’s been more than a decade since Tiller was murdered, but at Trust Women, which reopened and rebranded under his protégé Julie Burkhart in 2013, the past has a habit of lingering outside the gates."
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
7/6/2022
Abortion Is Not Just About Privacy; It's About Freedom
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
"If women cannot dictate this most basic aspect of their being, then the Supreme Court has effectively consigned them to a distinctly secondary tier of citizenship."
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SOURCE: Nursing Clio
6/30/2022
Nursing Clio's Collective Reproductive History Syllabus
This is a selection from an in-progress project to develop a collectively-sourced syllabus for the history of reproduction and reproductive rights and freedom.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
6/27/2022
A Guide from the Past for Travelers Seeking an Abortion
by Sarah Elvins
"Women traveling to procure abortions is nothing new. Before the 1973 Roe ruling, state-to-state travel existed, as did highly organized transnational networks to guide women across borders."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
6/25/2022
What the 1960s Tell Us about the Path to Secure Reproductive Freedom
by Felicia Kornbluh
Those who wish to protect abortion rights and other reproductive freedoms after the Dobbs decision must consider combining any and all strategies available, from lobbying to civil disobedience and mass action.
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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
Discarding Legal Precedent to Control Women's Reproductive Rights is Rooted in Colonial Slavery
by Clyde W. Ford
The colonial Virginia lawsuit of Elizabeth Key, who won freedom in 1656, pushed colonial authorities to reverse precedent to ensure that the law would be a tool for maintaining hierarchies of race, gender, and class, and Black women's bodies would be the battleground of those conflicts.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/20/2022
Banning Abortion and The Buffalo Shooting are Connected
by Mytheli Sreenivas
The seeming coincidence of the Buffalo shooter's "Great Replacement" manifesto and the leaked Supreme Court decision actually highlights the way that women's reproductive freedoms are central to the politics of race and demography.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
5/19/2022
Alito's Opinion Shows Roe is Only the Beginning
by Thomas Zimmer
The entire idea of substantive due process under the 14th Amendment is called into question by the draft opinion, potentially threatening reproductive rights, civil rights, and sexual freedom in service of a reactionary ideal of patriarchal society.
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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: Los Angeles Times
5/10/2022
SCOTUS is Enabling a Backlash Against Free Sexual Expression
by Rebecca L. Davis
The history of legislation aimed at suppressing "vice" shows that abortion is tied to other forms of free sexual expression. The last sweeping attack on sexual freedom took decades to reverse.
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SOURCE: Activist History Review
5/4/2022
For Deliverance: A Letter on Roe
by Riley Clare Valentine
A Catholic scholar and activist concludes "it is an act of love, of caritas, to reject the unjust undoing of Roe and to continue to help our neighbors who need access to abortions."
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SOURCE: The Editorial Board
5/4/2022
Abortion Historian Gillian Frank on Religious Leaders who Once Helped Women End Pregnancies
Faced with the toll of injury and death from their congregants desperately seeking illegal abortions, individual priests, ministers and rabbis in significant numbers were an unlikely but important source of help in obtaining safe abortion before Roe.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/25/2022
Antiabortion Movement Gunning for Contraceptive Rights, Too
by Anya Jabour
A century ago, sex researcher Katharine Bement Davis was silenced because she fought to redefine women's sexuality and contraceptive use as normal and fight for its decriminalization. The right today wants to undo her legacy through the courts.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/24/2022
The Religious History of Caesarean Surgery and the Abortion Debate
by Elizabeth O'Brien
In the 18th century, priests in Spanish colonies in the Americas were required to perform Caesaran operations on pregnant women whose own lives were beyond saving in order to baptize their fetuses, helping to develop the Catholic doctrine that the unborn already had souls.
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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: The New Yorker
2/22/2022
How Black Feminists Defined Abortion Rights
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Arguments in the Dobbs case have privileged the concerns of affluent, professional women – hardly the Mississippians whose lives will be affected by the state's draconian abortion bans. The abortion rights movement needs to return to its roots in racial and economic justice.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
1/25/2022
Abortion isn't a "Choice" without Racial Justice
by Sara Matthiesen
The recent failure of the broad social spending initiatives of Build Back Better and the impending judicial overthrow of Roe are connected, and signal the need for a movement for reproductive freedom that goes beyond "choice" to address systemic inequalities.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/11/2022
Abortion is Vulnerable Because it was Never Assimilated into Mainstream Medicine
by Carole Joffe
Because mainstream doctors and their professional organizations stigmatized the providers of illegal abortions before 1973, they were neither willing nor able to provide a strong defense of abortion rights after Roe v. Wade.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
12/1/2021
What RBG Got Wrong about the Abortion Debate and the Courts
by Felicia Kornbluh
Ruth Bader Ginsburg stated that the Roe v. Wade decision inflamed abortion politics by preventing the states from legislating on the issue. The history of abortion legislation doesn't suggest that it would have, or will ever, create consensus.
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