Issues for the week of September 9, 2021 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of September 9

Previous Weeks

Is Roe Dead?

Creeping Fascism

Laura Briggs

Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Are You Looking for Jane?

Heather Booth and Claire Potter

How We Are Doing in Texas

Lauren Gutterman

Associate Professor, Department of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Texas Women Just Lost Their Right to Their Own Bodies

Jill Filipovic

Brooklyn-based journalist, lawyer, and author

Why Does the Texas Legislature Believe That Embryos Have a Heartbeat?

Claire Potter

Contributing Editor at Public Seminar, and Emeritus Professor of History at the New School for Social Research

Preserving the Life—and Autonomy—of the Mother

Jessica Bush and Samantha Klein

How Banning Abortion Will Transform America

Maria Bucur and Kristen R. Ghodsee

Handing Power Back to the Vigilantes

Heather Cox Richardson

Professor of History, Boston College

By Turning Law Enforcement Over to ‘Abortion Vigilantes,’ Texas Uses Lawlessness to Destabilize Equal Treatment Under Law

John Stoehr

Visiting assistant professor of public policy and liberal studies at Wesleyan University, and editor and publisher of the Editorial Board