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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

Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion Before and After Roe V. Wade

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An abstact piece of a naked blue woman and a cage.

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

Anti-abortion protest in front of the Supreme Court in 1996.

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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