reproductive rights

This isn’t the first time the U.S. Postal Service has played a role in curbing women’s reproductive rights.

The two may seem unconnected, but a centuries-long history of panic about White birth rates binds them together.

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

Claims that mothers lacking formula should just breastfeed repeats a centuries-old mistake.

To take away the right to privacy is to take a giant step backward in American history.

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

A new book juxtaposes dominant narratives about motherhood, women’s autonomy, and abortion with the weirdness of ordinary lives.

Efforts to roll back abortion and contraception access aim to control women’s sexuality.

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

How abortion activists responded in the wake of the 1989 Webster decision and what we can learn from their efforts.

Behind Britney Spears's struggle to regain control of her fortune and her medical decisions is a long history of robbing women of basic freedoms.

Hell hath no fury like a man with a vaginal douche named after him.

Letting panic about fertility rates drive policy is dangerous.

In the early twentieth century, teachers were prohibited from keeping their jobs after getting pregnant. Socialist feminists organized to change that.

When professor Norman E. Himes published The Medical History of Contraception in 1936, he had made a tactical move, to legalize birth control.

Marginalized women of color have long seen their reproductive freedom limited.

Our future might look much like our past, with pills as a major part of abortion access—and an obsessive target for abortion opponents.

Over a six-year period in the 1970s, physicians sterilized perhaps 25% of Native American women of childbearing age.

When birth control was still taboo, early socialists fought to make it accessible to working-class women.

Contrary to what Clarence Thomas recently claimed, eugenicists never favored abortion as a means of population control.