abortion

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/11/2022
  

  Why Direct Democracy is The Best Protection for Abortion Rights

  by Rachel Rebouché and Mary Ziegler

  Given the chance to vote directly on abortion rights, voters have been swayed by personal experience and shared stories to protect reproductive freedom and leave the choice in the hands of women, not politicians. 

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• SOURCE: Wired
  11/1/2022
  

  Are Americans Ready for their Neighbors to Turn Them In?

  From abortion to classroom teaching, state laws are increasingly incentivizing people to report other members of the community for violating new restrictions. Experts say this has worked in the past to erode trust and enable further authoritarianism. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  10/25/2022
  

  When Abortion is Criminalized, Can Juries Nullify the Law?

  by Sonali Chakravarti

  Inevitably, a health care provider will be prosecuted under one of the post-Dobbs abortion laws passed by the states. When this happens, will juries be informed by their predecessors who refused to convict defendants charged under the Fugitive Slave Act? 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/24/2022
  

  2005 Diary Entry Shows Justice Alito Told Ted Kennedy He Respected Roe Precedent

  In his pre-confirmation interview with the Senator, Alito claimed he wrote antiabortion legal memos because he wanted to please his bosses in the Reagan administration. This failed to reassure Kennedy, who voted against his nomination and wrote skeptically of the judge's integrity in his diary. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  10/18/2022
  

  Will Court's Abortion Overreach Galvanize Religious Americans Who Prefer Secular Society?

  by Jacques Berlinerblau

  Not all religious Americans loathe a secular society; many see it as the best protection of their own personal freedom of worship and conscience. Challenges to Florida's new abortion restrictions show they could be a powerful political force.

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• SOURCE: Iowa Public Radio
  10/10/2022
  

  Lina-Maria Murillo: Abortion in Iowa has Always Been Political

  Although abortion has always been tied up with the political controversies of the day, its entanglement with specifically religious views is relatively new. 

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• SOURCE: The Revealer
  10/6/2022
  

  "For We Were Strangers": Trans Refugees and Moral Panics

  by Gillian Frank

  Trans Americans will be increasingly compelled to flee states where laws repress them. What does this refugee crisis share with the past experiences of queer people migrating in search of safety and sexual freedom or women crossing state lines to access abortion? 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/27/2022
  

  Black Women's Activism Ties Reproductive Rights to Broader Goals of Freedom

  by Kim Gallon

  Black women's reproductive lives have always been complicated by institutional racism, sexism, and the balance of personal autonomy and racial solidarity. Black feminists have struggled to use the African American press as a space to force discussion of the issues. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  9/26/2022
  

  U of Idaho Advises Faculty of Legal Jeopardy for Discussing Abortion in Classrooms

  The university's general counsel warned that the vagueness of the state's abortion restrictions means faculty are at risk of prosecution for how they discuss the issue in their classrooms. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  9/20/2022
  

  The Underground Network of Ministers and Rabbis Aiding Abortion Access Before Roe

  Part of journalist Becca Andrews's new book looks at the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion, which, before the religious right, offered a faith-based endorsement of abortion rights.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  9/6/2022
  

  Criminalizing Abortion Will Tear Families Apart

  There are relatively few Americans living today whose parents were harassed or jailed for performing illegal abortions. Their stories should inform the debate today. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/8/2022
  

  Why Medical Exceptions to Abortion Bans Won't Protect Women

  by Evan Hart

  Under new restrictive state laws, judges and lawyers, not doctors or patients, will decide who can get a medically necessary abortion. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/6/2022
  

  The Supreme Court Ignored the 19th Century "Voluntary Motherhood" Movement

  by Lauren Thompson

  Abortion is, indeed, a deeply rooted right in American history, demonstrated by the extent to which women have worked to control reproduction. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  9/1/2022
  

  A Return to the 1960s "Abortion Handbook for Responsible Women"?

  by Lina-Maria Murillo

  Women acting on principles of mutual aid have worked to make information about reproductive health, including terminating pregnancies, available even at risk of legal punishment. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  8/28/2022
  

  Leslie Reagan: Pro-Life is a Historical Misnomer

  The author of "When Abortion Was a Crime" discusses the pro-life movement with Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  8/25/2022
  

  Safe Haven "Baby Boxes" are a Medieval Horror

  by Maria Laurino

  "As generations of twentieth-century Italian mothers and their children can attest, giving a woman no choice but to anonymously surrender her baby is a route to ruined lives."

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  8/17/2022
  

  The Pre-Civil War Origins of Texas's Abortion Laws

  Texas's pre-Roe abortion ban has been dated to 1925 when the state recodified its criminal code, but the original statute dates to 1857. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  8/11/2022
  

  "Phantom Catholic Threats" Haunt Ireland's National Maternity Hospital

  by Máiréad Enright

  Secular Irish health advocates fear that a partnership between the state and religious charities to operate the national maternity hospital will impose limits on care, including abortion access. Is this justified or a case of finding "nuns under the bed"? 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  8/8/2022
  

  What Happens When SCOTUS is This Unpopular?

  It's not unprecedented for Justices to shift their positions when confronted with public outrage, but five of the current members of the court have explicitly declared their indifference to public outcry, and understand there's little to constrain their future decisions. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  8/9/2022
  

  The Misuse of History in 2021 Documentary "The Business of Birth Control"

  by Donna J. Drucker

  The documentary combines an endorsement of conspiratorial suspicion of pharmaceutical contraception and scientifically questionable fertility management under the guise of "empowerment" with a dose of financial conflict of interest thrown in.