abortion

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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
  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: 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.

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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.