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Abortion opponents hold signs reading "I Vote Pro-life First" outside Supreme Court

Abortion and Partisan Entrenchment

The modern Republican Party has tied itself to Roe v. Wade. With the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs, the party is vulnerable to new issues.
by Jack Balkin via Social Science Research Network on September 14, 2022
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony with backdrop of abortion protest posters

What Did the Suffragists Really Think About Abortion?

Contrary to contemporary claims, Susan B. Anthony and her peers rarely discussed abortion, which only emerged as a key political issue in the 1960s.
by Treva B. Lindsey via Smithsonian on May 26, 2022
Photograph of abortion pro-choice activists demonstrating outside the Supreme Court.
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Originalists are Misreading the Constitution’s Silence on Abortion

The originalist case for lifting abortion restrictions.
by Laura Briggs via Made By History on May 3, 2022
A cemetery with a dusting of snow.

Safer Than Childbirth

Abortion in the 19th century was widely accepted as a means of avoiding the risks of pregnancy.
by Tamara Dean via The American Scholar on March 4, 2022
A pro-Trump mob storms the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6., 2021
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Far-Right Extremism Dominates the GOP. It Didn’t Start — And Won’t End — With Trump.

How a decades-long movement helped the far-right fringe gain control of the GOP.
by Joseph Lowndes via Made By History on November 8, 2021
An illustration featuring Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, and Marjorie Taylor Greene.

The John Birch Society Never Left

Why it’s foolish to think the modern GOP will ever break with its lunatic fringe.
by Rick Perlstein, Edward H. Miller via The New Republic on March 8, 2021

The Dark History of School Choice

How an argument for segregated schools became a rallying cry for privatizing public education.
by Diane Ravitch via New York Review of Books on January 4, 2021
Joe Biden walking in a church cemetery
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Joe Biden's Harshest Critics Are Likely To Be Some of His Fellow Catholics

The fight between Biden and conservative Catholics will be about more than policy.
by Theresa Keeley via Made By History on November 30, 2020
Donald Trump and Joe Biden behind podiums during the first presidential debate of 2020
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President Trump Gets the Suburbs All Wrong

His conception of what appeals to suburban voters is frozen in the past.
by Michelle M. Nickerson via Made By History on October 1, 2020
Sandra Day O'Connor

How the Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor Helped Preserve Abortion 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.
by Evan Thomas via The New Yorker on March 27, 2019
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The Roots of Evangelicals’ Political Fervor

White evangelical Christians are among President Trump’s most important supporters. But more than 40 years ago, they were on the margins of American politics.
via Retro Report on October 28, 2018

San Francisco’s Queen of Abortions Gets Her Moment of Recognition

Two new biographies look at the life of Inez Burns, an uncompromising and extravagant turn-of--the-century woman.
by Kim Kelly via The Outline on February 6, 2018

Roe v. Wade Lawyer 'Amazed' Americans Still Fighting Over Abortion

On the 45th anniversary of the famous decision, Sarah Weddington reflects on what has – and hasn't – changed.
by Sarah Weddington, Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on January 20, 2018

The Two Women’s Movements

Feminism has been on the march since the 1970s, but so has the conservative backlash.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on June 1, 2017
Baby sleeping in a woman's arms.
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What’s the Definition of “Person”?

Two court cases that defined and changed the nature of personhood.
via BackStory on May 10, 2013
Flag in front of a church.

Iowa: A Pastor's Son Notes When Politics Came to the Pulpit

A pastor's son reflects on his evangelical father's beliefs regarding politics in the pulpit.
by Randall Balmer via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on October 27, 2012

Mississippi: A Historian Challenges H.L. Mencken

Mississippi may be the nation’s most religious state, but it is also far more complex and dynamic than many commentators admit.
by Alison de Lima Greene via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on October 19, 2012

Abortion in American History

How do ideological debates on gender roles influence the abortion debate?
by Katha Pollitt via The Atlantic on May 1, 1997

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