reproductive rights

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.

Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk rationalized his medication abortion opinion through a distorted reading of the long-dormant 1873 law.

Success moving forward requires building a more inclusive movement than what existed during the Roe v. Wade era.

When Susan Struck fought being discharged for pregnancy from the US Air Force, it brought the right to choose into a different light.

The right to abortion is an affirmation that women and girls have the right to control their own destiny.

State-sanctioned efforts to keep the incarcerated from reproducing began in the early 20th century and continue today.

On Christmas Eve 1955, Jacqueline Smith died from an illegal abortion at her boyfriend Thomas G. Daniel’s apartment.

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

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 As those rights are repealed, the fight must return to the streets.

With the Comstock Act of 1873 coming back to life, reproductive care, LGBTQ protections, and a host of other civil rights are now at risk.

The medication abortion decision by a federal judge in Texas focused on the rights of fetuses and the interests of doctors — not the rights of women.

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

My mother’s part in the 1970 repeal of New York’s abortion law is a lesson for today’s activists: all politics is local.

Although originalists fail to see it, abortion has had a long and storied history for American women.

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

Abortion and "The Scarlet Letter."

Enslaved women's use of birth control, abortifacients, and even infanticide showed that they resisted by exerting control over their reproductive lives.

The pro-life movement needs to know that such culture wars result not in outright victory for one side but in reaction and compromise.

How activists can secure legal abortion with a diverse all-of-the-above movement.

How the Southern Baptist Convention’s views on abortion changed during the 1980s, when a more conservative wing seized control of the denomination.