reproductive freedom 
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SOURCE: NPR
6/23/2022
Mary Ziegler: Right Won't Stop at Roe
Law professor Mary Ziegler explains how the anti-abortion movement upended the GOP establishment and helped push the courts to the right. Her new book is Dollars for Life.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
10/17/2021
Early Pregnancy Testing Required Sacrificing Rabbits
Women have always had an interest in detecting pregancy as soon as possible; the development of tests for pregnancy hormones involved fugitives from the Nazis and unfortunate rodents who were autopsied in early tests.
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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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SOURCE: CNN
9/16/2020
In a Horrifying History of Forced Sterilizations, Some Fear the US is Beginning a New Chapter
Historians and ethnic studies and legal scholars Natalia Molina, Alexandra Minna Stern, Alan Kraut and Maybell Romero comment on recent whistleblower allegations that ICE detention facilities forced migrant women to have hysterectomies. American racism has long showed itself around questions of who gets to control their own bodies.
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