Leslie J. Reagan

Abortion in the 19th century was widely accepted as a means of avoiding the risks of pregnancy.

The story of an underground abortion service that operated pre-Roe vs. Wade.

How do ideological debates on gender roles influence the abortion debate?

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?

Abortion exceptions in legal history.

The fact that most doctors like me don't know how to perform abortions is one of the greatest scandals of contemporary medicine in the US.

We tell the story of the Jane Collective, which provided thousands of illegal abortions fin Chicago rom 1969 to 1973, before Roe v. Wade.

How antebellum women prevented themselves from getting pregnant during an era when their identity was founded on being a mother.

A brief history of self-induced abortion.