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SOURCE: New York Times
3/17/2023
On Abortion, Corporate Chains Like Walgreens Fear the Republicans More than the "Woke"
by Mary Ziegler
Despite claims that "woke" corporations are pushing a left-wing agenda, Republican Attorneys General have successfully pressured Walgreens under threat of litigation to stop selling mifepristone in states where abortion remains legal.
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SOURCE: Nursing Clio
3/22/2023
History of Reproductive Law Shows Women in Power aren't the Solution
by Lara Friedenfelds
The end of Roe v. Wade makes difficult pregnancies and miscarriages potentially legaly perilous for women. The history of how the law determines fault in a lost pregnancy shows that women are as capable as men of participating in a regime that punishes other women for the ends of their pregnancies.
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SOURCE: Slate
3/14/2023
Texas's Abortion Ban Can Never be Made Humane
by Mary Ziegler
When abortion access depends on establishing that a pregnant woman deserves an exception to a ban, the law will inevitably prevent doctors from serving patients with problem pregnancies.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/16/2023
Citing Slavery-Era Property Law, VA Judge Rules Embryos are Property
A bioethicist argued that the judge could have resolved a property dispute without reference to chattel slavery, and that invoking the statue was offensive.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
3/9/2023
Attack on Medical Abortion Drugs is 40 Years in the Making
A lawsuit filed in Texas would threaten the availability of the drugs used to induce medical abortions, even in states where abortion remains legal. This is part of a long-developing plan.
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3/5/2023
The Defiant Woman at the Center of New York's First Abortion Battle
by Alan J. Singer
Carolyn Ann Trow Lohman, better known as Madame Restell, defied the authority of the medical establishment and moral crusaders to help women obtain abortions. Justice Alito's misuse of history to justify the Dobbs decision shows the need to remember her.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
2/12/2023
Margaret Atwood: Go Ahead and Ban My Book
The novelist responds to the recent banning of "The Handmaid's Tale" by a Virginia county with assurances that forbidden knowledge has never been suppressible.
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SOURCE: Harvard Gazette
1/31/2023
Harvard Law Symposium on Roe 50 Years Later
A conference hosted by the Radcliffe Institute convened legal and historical scholars to discuss the future of reproductive rights.
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SOURCE: WBEZ
1/31/2023
The Story of one of the Few Black Members of Chicago's Secret Abortion Rights Underground
Recent attention to the Jane Collective's pre-Roe activities to help women obtain abortions has passed over the work of a small number of Black women like Marie Leaner within the group, and the struggle to connect reproductive and racial justice politics.
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SOURCE: TIME
1/21/2023
What My Mother's Activism Before Roe Shows Us about the Upcoming Fights after Dobbs
by Felicia Kornbluh
"The first thing we’ve missed about Roe is that it was merely the final scene in a drama whose origins lay far from the U.S. Supreme Court... a movement that resembled the movement for abortion rights today, centered on policy change in individual states and localities."
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SOURCE: Mother Jones
1/24/2023
How Private Equity Cashed in on Medical Abortion
The American effort to bring the French RU-486 medication to the domestic market made medical abortion much more widely accessible. But, in true American fashion, the involvement of private investors looking for profit also made it much more expensive—even more so after Dobbs.
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SOURCE: Yale Law School
1/23/2023
Legal Historian Reva Siegel on Dobbs
Legal historians have argued that the equal protection provisions of the 14th Amendment offer a more solid rationale for reproductive rights than the now-defunct right to privacy, though the court's majority has expressed skepticism while not directly ruling on the question.
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SOURCE: NPR
1/17/2023
Mary Ziegler: Prepare for Legal Chaos Around Abortion
Roe author Mary Ziegler has chronicled the legal, political and cultural battles around abortion, and says the debate is far from over: "We're at the very beginning of something very confusing."
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SOURCE: Dissent
1/11/2023
Margaret Sanger's Ghost and the Antiabortion Movement
by Melinda Cooper
The anti-abortion right's invocation of eugenics in the Dobbs case and in their public rhetoric might seem cynical. But it could be effective, unless the history of Sanger's relationship to eugenics and reproductive freedom is better understood.
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SOURCE: Dissent
1/11/2023
50 Years at Cook County Hospital Prove Abortion is Healthcare
by Amy Zanoni
Abortion rights activists have focused on horror stories of the pre-Roe era as cautionary tales, but the history of public hospitals since Roe shows that real reproductive freedom requires expanded access to care and a robust social safety net.
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/21/2022
Was the Civil War Inevitable?
by David W. Blight
As a growing number of Americans entertain the idea that dissolving the nation might be better than holding its incompatible parts together, it's worth revisiting the series of decisions that led to the Civil War, and to ask whether the nation has, or will, experience the equivalent of the Dred Scott decision.
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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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