Roe v Wade Archives - Public Seminar

Podcast

Why Abortion Alone Does Not Make Women Free

A conversation with Felicia Kornbluh on Roe v. Wade

January 29, 2024 • by Claire Potter

A conversation with Felicia Kornbluh on Roe v. Wade. Let’s recap how abortion, after almost 50 years, once again became a matter of state law. ...

Why Abortion Alone Does Not Make Women Free

Past Present

A History of the Mugshot

Past Present Podcast, Episode 390

September 5, 2023 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

In this episode of Past Present, Niki, Natalia, and Neil discuss the history of the mugshot. ...

Activism

Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Thou Shalt Not Lie

These anti-abortion activists lure clients in by posing as medical facilities—but local ordinances can force them to tell the truth or close

July 11, 2022 • by Claire Potter

As important is the sense of despair many liberals and progressives feel when we throw our collective weight behind gambits and activism that are unlikely to yield tangible success. But here’s another idea. What if we all looked at how we could support reproductive rights in our own communities—and not ...

Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Thou Shalt Not Lie

Activism

Continuous Protest outside the Supreme Court

A photo essay

June 27, 2022 • by Jo Freeman

Thousands of people congregated outside the Supreme Court on June 24, shortly after the Court announced that it was overturning Roe v. Wade. That 1973 decision had held that states could not regulate women’s right to an abortion prior to the viability of the fetus. People came and went throughout the ...

Continuous Protest outside the Supreme Court

Sex & Gender

How Fetal Politics Stole Americans’ Reproductive Rights

An interview with Jennifer Holland about the origins and ethics of the anti-abortion movement

June 25, 2022 • by Claire Potter and Jennifer Holland

I interviewed Jennifer Holland, L.R. Brammer Jr. Presidential Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma about her book, Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement (UC press, 2020). Holland describes the evolution of what she calls “fetal politics”—a political mov...