abortion

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  7/14/19
  

  Professor Rebecca Gordon Pens Essay Revealing Her Abortion and Examines Ongoing History of Roe v. Wade

  by Rebecca Gordon

  "We’ve been going backwards on abortion access for decades. Since 1976, the Hyde Amendment has denied abortion services to women who get their health care through the federal Medicaid program, or indeed to anyone whose health insurance is federally funded."

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  6/25/19
  

  The Anti-Abortion Politics of White Women

  by Jacqueline Mercier Allain

  The reality is that women—white women in particular—are among today’s anti-choice movers and shakers. 

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• 6/9/19
  

  Women Have Fought to Legalize Reproductive Rights for Nearly Two Centuries

  by Lauren MacIvor Thompson

  The efforts of the second-wave feminist movement transformed older ideas of voluntary motherhood, which asserted that women both didn’t have to have sex or be pregnant, into the more radical notion that women could enjoy sex without fear of becoming pregnant.  

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• SOURCE: Salon
  5/31/2019
  

  Historians call Clarence Thomas’ anti-abortion argument, "A gross misuse of historical facts"

  “Linking the pro-choice movement to racism . . . He’s a bad man,” Georgia State law professor Eric Segall says

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• SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle
  5/30/2019
  

  Open Forum: Are public schools ‘inclusive’? Not for those who oppose abortion

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Children need to learn how to discuss abortion — and other controversial political questions — in a fair and mutually respectful way. And that won’t happen if the adults in the room tell them the right answers, right off the bat.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/29/2019
  

  Adam Cohen: Clarence Thomas Knows Nothing of My Work

  by Adam Cohen

  The justice used my book to tie abortion to eugenics. But his rendition of the history is incorrect.

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• 5/26/19
  

  What the Fugitive Slave Law Can Teach Us About Anti-Abortion Legislation

  by Ed Simon

  As the Fugitive Slave Act was motivated by an inhuman racism, so are these new laws mandating forced pregnancy defined by hideous misogyny.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  5/20/19
  

  How Democrats can win the abortion war: Talk about Roe's restrictions as well as rights

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Republicans are lying when they paint us as the party of death and infanticide. Fight back by championing both the right to abortion and limits on it.

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• SOURCE: Time
  5/16/19
  

  We Don't Have to Imagine the Consequences of Abortion Bans. We Just Have to Look to the Past

  by Leslie J. Reagan

  Making abortion illegal never meant abortion didn’t happen. For the entire century of criminalized abortion, women of every class, marital status, religion and race still obtained them.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  5/20/19
  

  What Abortion Was Like In The U.S. Before Roe V. Wade

  NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Karissa Haugeberg, assistant professor of history at Tulane University, about what it was like to get an abortion before Roe v. Wade.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/19/19
  

  Trump says he’s an antiabortion champion like Reagan. History says: Not quite.

  Reagan’s legacy on abortion is far more complicated, and antiabortion advocates have long considered his actions a disappointment.

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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: Washington Post
  4/27/19
  

  Once a center of antiabortion extremism, Kansas’s protections are now stronger than ever

  The month and a half in 1991 that radically changed the politics of abortion in Kansas.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-20-18
  

  How the Supreme Court fractured the nation over slavery — and how it threatens to do so again

  by H. W. Brands

  The issue: abortion. Those who would outlaw abortion today are as convinced of the morality of their position as the abolitionists were of the morality of theirs.

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• SOURCE: NY Review of Books
  10-31-18 (accessed)
  

  How Republicans Became Anti-Choice

  by Sue Halpern

  The documentary, "Reversing Roe," does an admirable job of teasing apart how the Republican Party used control of women’s bodies as political capital to shift the balance of power their way.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-31-18
  

  Remembering an Era Before Roe, When New York Had the "Most Liberal" Abortion Law in the Nation

  Three years before Roe v. Wade established a constitutional right to abortion, New York legalized the procedure in 1970, turning the state into a magnet for women who wanted to terminate their pregnancies.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  7-23-18
  

  Massachusetts Passes Repeal of 173-Year-Old Abortion Ban Amid Fears for Future of Roe v. Wade

  It will make Massachusetts the first state to respond to the possibility that Roe v. Wade could be repealed or significantly weakened following the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy.

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• 8/5/18
  

  Indiana Authorities Said Their Abortion Law Was Designed to Protect Women

  by Scott W. Stern

  Given the state’s history, it’s clear the law was actually about controlling women.

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• 7/8/18
  

  When (and Why) Did Supreme Court Nomination Battles Become All about Roe v. Wade?

  by Daniel K. Williams

  For the first twenty years after Roe, Senate confirmation hearings were not polarizing conflicts over abortion rights. Here’s how that changed.

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• SOURCE: The Boston Globe
  2-5-18
  

  Race, not abortion, was the founding issue of the religious right

  Though opposition to abortion is what many think fueled the powerful conservative white evangelical right, 81 percent of whom voted for Donald Trump, it was really school integration.