Yahoo

How 19th-century literature spread the archetype of the 'evil abortionist'

After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, one aspect of the abortion debate stayed the same: lurid sensationalism. GOP firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene extolled the court for outlawing ...
HeraldNet

Comment: 19th-century standards used to limit women’s rights

In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court justices President Donald Trump appointed to reverse Roe have just made good on his pledge. The decision so dramatically limits women ...
Yahoo

Supreme Court’s selective reading of US history ignored 19th-century women’s support for ‘voluntary motherhood’

Members of the National American Woman Suffrage Association participate in a 1910 parade in Washington, D.C. Paul Thompson/FPG/Archive Photos/Hulton Archive via Getty Images The history of abortion in ...
Moviefone

Daring Women Doctors: Physicians in the 19th Century (2020)

Hidden in American history, all women's medical schools began to appear in the mid 19th century long before women had the right to vote or own property. "Daring Women Doctors" highlights the intrepid, ...