reproductive rights

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• SOURCE: Vox
  10/14/2021
  

  The Lies of TV's Abortion Storylines

  by Tanya Melendez

  "Looking back on how abortion came into our living rooms starting in the 1960s and persisted into our audience-fragmented streaming era can teach us how these stories taught, shaped, and contributed to today’s public discourse about abortion."

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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: CNN
  10/1/2021
  

  Free Britney Comes at a Time of Crisis for Reproductive Freedom

  by Nicole Hemmer

  The fight to end Britney Spears's conservatorship highlights the links between reproductive and sexual freedom and women's autonomy. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  9/23/2021
  

  Peering Into Windows and Wombs: Reflections on SB 8

  by Gillian Frank

  "Even as abortion opponents loudly proclaim they are acting by divine mandate, people of faith like Dr. Curtis Boyd remain on the frontlines of this battle for reproductive healthcare."

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  9/12/2021
  

  The Way it Was

  "That year in the 1960s, several thousand American women were treated in emergency rooms for botched abortions, and there were at least 200 known deaths.Comparing my story with others from the pre-Roe era, what impresses me is how close I veered to mortal danger."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  98/15/2021
  

  Edsall: Abortion Has Always Been Part of Broader Politics

  Thomas Edsall draws on the work of historians Katherine Stewart, Randall Balmer, Jefferson Cowie and Darren Dochuk, plus other scholars, to argue that the "right to life" movement grew from the movement of resistance to school integration and today is sustained by politics of masculinity. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/10/2021
  

  How the Texas Abortion Law Creates Citizen Bounty Hunters

  Legal historian and reproductive rights scholar Mary Ziegler: “It almost seemed like anyone could sue anyone — and that didn’t seem right. But it was. It really is that extraordinary.”

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• 9/12/2021
  

  Memo From Irish History: Welcome to Your Future, American Women

  by Laura Weinstein

  After sustained public outcry, the Republic of Ireland looked to its history of horrific treatment and preventable death of girls and women under its draconian abortion laws and said "enough." Will this example change the course American states like Texas are poised to follow? 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/3/2021
  

  Americans Sought Safer Abortions in Mexico Before Roe, Too

  by Lina-Maria Murillo

  "No matter what antiabortion crusaders try, pregnant people will always find ways to have abortions — and networks that go beyond borders have long helped them navigate treatment options."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/7/2021
  

  Texas's Long History of Restricting Reproductive Freedom

  "Rather than addressing maternal mortality, Texas lawmakers have instead spent years decimating access to basic preventive health care. Those who suffer most from Texas’ reproductive health policies are its most vulnerable."

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  3/11/2021
  

  Women’s Experiences Matter? Natalie Kimball’s An Open Secret: The History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Modern Bolivia

  "Women’s experiences matter – this simple truth is at the core of Natalie Kimball’s brilliant new exploration into the tragic history of unwanted pregnancy and abortion in highland Bolivia over the past sixty years."

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  10/6/2020
  

  The Religious Hijacking of the Supreme Court Doesn’t Require Amy Barrett

  Five of the court's current justices are already comfortable with a "free exercise supremacy" approach that casts the rights of the religious to mold society to their faith as superior to the rights of women, gays, and minorities to live with dignity.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  9/1/2020
  

  What's Next for Abortion Law?

  by Mary Ziegler

  Thinking historically about the abortion debate shows a shift in the ground of conflict from questions of rights to questions of restriction. The debate has always been about how the costs and benefits of childbearing are shared in society.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  7/22/2020
  

  “For Those on Both Sides”: An Interview with Mary Ziegler about Abortion and the Law in America

  Recently, Florida State University law professor Mary Ziegler sat down with Nursing Clio to talk about her new book, Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present. The book illustrates how the question of “abortion rights” is only one piece of the puzzle – rather both antiabortion and pro-choice advocates have spent decades in a tug-of-war over policy, funding issues, and larger questions about public health.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/21/2020
  

  Planned Parenthood To Remove Margaret Sanger’s Name From N.Y. Clinic Over Eugenics Support

  “The problem with Sanger was she was so single minded that she was willing to align herself with anybody,” Margaret Sanger Papers Project founder Esther Katz said. “These are problematic positions. She did speak to the Klan. But I think obliterating her...doesn’t allow us to discuss this in any way or debate it.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/19/2020
  

  The Woman Behind Roe V. Wade Got Paid To Embrace Antiabortion Movement, New Documentary Reveals

  “I was the big fish. I think it was a mutual thing. I took their money, and they’d put me out in front of the cameras and tell me what to say. That’s what I’d say,” she says in “AKA Jane Roe.”

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  5/19/2020
  

  Jane Roe’s Deathbed Confession: Anti-Abortion Conversion ‘All an Act’ Paid for by the Christian Right

  A new documentary includes Norma McCorvey's revelation that anti-abortion organizations paid her to pose insincerely as a born-again anti-abortion crusader in the 1990s.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/8/2020
  

  My Abortion Before Roe v. Wade

  by Elizabeth Stone

  Roe v. Wade is in peril, flinging me back to a terrifying time in my own life, one I never expected women today would have to face.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  12/13/19
  

  Women Have Always Had Abortions

  by Lauren MacIvor Thompson

  False histories of abortion dominate contemporary politics, selling Americans on a past that never existed and creating the possibility of a future that has no precedent. 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  9/26/19
  

  The fight to end Roe v. Wade enters its endgame next week. Here's the History Behind It.

  by Ian Millhiser

  The Supreme Court could dismantle the constitutional right to an abortion, and all it has to do is sit on its hands.