abortion rights

The surprising history of a politically charged phrase.

History shows that activists can win statewide fights—but that the strategy might be unsustainable long-term.

The debate over abortion is an important part of the story of polarization in American politics, but it is not its genesis.

The struggle for progress is always two steps forward and at least one step back.

There is little mention of abortion in a four-thousand-word document crafted by fifty-five men in 1787. This seems to be a surprise to Samuel Alito.

The cruelty of enslavers when it came to reproduction and families shaped the 13th and 14th Amendments.

As liberation movements bloomed, they offered a vision of reproductive justice that was about equality, not just “choice.”

Calls for the court to remain neutral have long been tools for denying Americans rights.

When Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O’Connor to be the first woman on the Supreme Court, her views on abortion became a source of intense speculation.

Behind a quiet house museum are anti-abortion activists with a mission: to claim America’s most famous historical feminist as their own.

Before the end of Black History Month, we should remember some of the leaders who shaped the movement in the years before Roe v. Wade.

Friedan was indispensable to second-wave feminism. And yet she was difficult to like.

His works underpins the Dobbs decision. His legacy matters enormously to what's next for constitutional law.

Abortion rights in the US were won in the 1970s thanks to militant feminist groups. As those rights are repealed, the fight must return to the streets.

A new book chronicles the decades-long fight to legalize abortion in the United States.

Religious conservatives see “anti-eugenic” laws as the most promising path to establish a federal ban on abortion.

Looking back at half a century of truth-telling and rebelling.

The right to abortion has been both supported and contested throughout history.  When banned, abortions still occur, but legal restrictions make them less safe.

The provision, which makes it a felony to talk about abortion online, has been on hold since the Clinton administration. Could it be enforced in the future?

Fights over fugitive slave laws pitted states against each other and showcased the risks of the federal government not supporting liberty.