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7/3/2022
The Stench is Coming from Inside the Court
by James D. Zirin
If the Supreme Court justices don't want to be perceived as partisan hacks, the latest rulings aren't helping their cause.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
6/24/2022
If the Court Can Reverse Roe, it Can Reverse Anything
by Mary Ziegler
The court majority's assurances that abortion rights are a special case, and that other liberties are not in jeopardy, is hollow.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
6/28/2022
3 Law Profs: Connecting Abortion and Voting Rights at SCOTUS
by Leah Litman, Melissa Murray and Kate Shaw
The Supreme Court has turned reproductive freedom over to state elected officials who are increasingly unaccountable to the public because of the Court's decisions eviscerating the Voting Rights Act.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
6/29/2022
Black Women Activists Have Long Connected Abortion Rights to Broader Issues of Freedom and Justice
by SaraEllen Strongman
Black women activists have been more likely than their white counterparts to place abortion rights in the broader context of reproductive justice: the freedom to have or not have children on one's own terms without the coercive pressure of political or economic power.
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SOURCE: Truthout
6/28/2022
Dark Money Fuels Anti-Choice Assault in State Houses
by Julia Peck, Evan Vorpahl & Alyssa Bowen
Dark money groups are ready to flood state legislative, judicial and attorney general races with cash and supply their allies with model legislation to take immediate advantage of the opening created by the Dobbs decision. The state-level war over abortion rights is on.
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SOURCE: Nursing Clio
6/30/2022
Nursing Clio's Collective Reproductive History Syllabus
This is a selection from an in-progress project to develop a collectively-sourced syllabus for the history of reproduction and reproductive rights and freedom.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
6/27/2022
A Guide from the Past for Travelers Seeking an Abortion
by Sarah Elvins
"Women traveling to procure abortions is nothing new. Before the 1973 Roe ruling, state-to-state travel existed, as did highly organized transnational networks to guide women across borders."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
6/27/2022
Shirley Wheeler was Jailed for Her Abortion in 1970 – Will it Happen Again?
by Katherine Parkin
The Dobbs decision portends a future where women's rights and liberty will depend on the political currents of the state where they happen to reside, and their own ability to afford legal counsel.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
6/25/2022
What the 1960s Tell Us about the Path to Secure Reproductive Freedom
by Felicia Kornbluh
Those who wish to protect abortion rights and other reproductive freedoms after the Dobbs decision must consider combining any and all strategies available, from lobbying to civil disobedience and mass action.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
6/24/2022
The Court's Abortion Decision is Based in White Nationalist Myth
by Samira K. Mehta and Lauren MacIvor Thompson
The durable image of "motherhood and apple pie" is central to the myth of white Christian nationalism and part of the ideological impulse to strip away 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: Patheos
6/27/2022
Who Will Now Bear Costs of Crisis Pregnancies?
by Daniel K. Williams
"Perhaps neither Roe nor Dobbs represents a fully Christian way to distribute the human costs associated with crisis pregnancies. And therein lies a dilemma for Christians who want to preserve human life and are unhappy with the results of Roe as well as the likely results of Dobbs."
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SOURCE: Wired
6/27/2022
Are You Ready to Be Surveilled Like a Sex Worker?
by Olivia Snow
A moral panic over sex trafficking has justified the development of an extensive electronic infrastructure of surveillance and punishment of sex workers. These are the tools other women can expect to have used against them if they seek (or seek to learn about) abortions or associate online with others who do.
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SOURCE: Current
6/27/2022
Current's Forum: The End of Roe
A panel of Evangelical scholars considers the impact of the end of the Roe v. Wade era.
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6/19/2022
What Prohibition History Tells Us about Returning Abortion to the States
by Richard F. Hamm
Federal control of interstate commerce and the mail mean that medical abortifacents will be difficult for state-level antiabortion politicians to keep out of their borders. There's no doubt that they will seek to pass federal laws leading to a national abortion ban.
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SOURCE: HuffPost
6/13/2022
The Families of Victims of Anti-Abortion Violence Face a Post-Roe World
The antiabortion movement has always included a violent, terroristic element. How will the pending Supreme Court decision influence its possible revival?
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SOURCE: Politico
6/8/2022
What to Expect after Roe, Based on Research
by Diana Greene Foster
The author has systematically studied the consequences to women of having an abortion or having that freedom denied. She explains what to expect when states are free to outlaw abortion: more child poverty, more maternal death, and reduced opportunities for women, with the poor getting the worst of it.
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SOURCE: Politico
6/2/2022
What Alito Got Wrong about the History of Abortion
by Leslie J. Reagan
"The logic that Alito uses in the draft opinion leans heavily on history — history that he gets egregiously wrong."
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6/5/2022
Discarding Legal Precedent to Control Women's Reproductive Rights is Rooted in Colonial Slavery
by Clyde W. Ford
The colonial Virginia lawsuit of Elizabeth Key, who won freedom in 1656, pushed colonial authorities to reverse precedent to ensure that the law would be a tool for maintaining hierarchies of race, gender, and class, and Black women's bodies would be the battleground of those conflicts.
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5/29/2022
Originalism, History, and Religiosity are the Faults of Alito's Reasoning in Dobbs
by Robert Spitzer
Justice Alito wrote in Dobbs that Roe v. Wade was “egregiously wrong from the start.” But that tart conclusion more aptly applies to the draft verdict of the good justice.
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