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Failing to Embed Abortion Care in Mainstream Medicine Made It Politically Vulnerable

Actions by the medical profession in the 1970s still reverberate today.

by Carole Joffe via Made By History on January 11, 2022

After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but Not Abortion

Carole Joffe, David S. Cohen

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Abortion’s Long History

Abortion has been an inescapable fact of life for millennia. So why do women gain or lose control over their reproductive lives at different times in history?

by Linda Greenhouse via New York Review of Books on September 4, 2025

Abortion's Past

Before Roe, abortion providers operated on the margins of medicine. They still do.

by Maureen Paul via Boston Review on May 16, 2019

Woman in a hospital bed reading a pamphlet called "After the Abortion."

Her “Health and Thus Her Life”

Abortion exceptions in legal history.

by Alicia Gutierrez-Romine via Perspectives on History on January 29, 2025

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