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Leslie J. Reagan

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How Women Were Made to Suffer for Their Abortions Before Roe v. Wade

Interrogated, examined, blackmailed: how law enforcement treated abortion-seeking women before Roe.

by Leslie J. Reagan via Slate on September 10, 2021

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A cemetery with a dusting of snow.

Safer Than Childbirth

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

by Tamara Dean via The American Scholar on March 4, 2022

The Women of Jane

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

by Radio Diaries via NPR on January 19, 2018

Abortion in American History

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

by Katha Pollitt via The Atlantic on May 1, 1997

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

Oil painting by Claire Lehmann called "Painter’s Hand, Patron’s Hand."

Learning and Not Learning Abortion

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.

by Laura Kolbe via n+1 on November 15, 2022

Mug shot of a woman in the Jane Collective.

Abortion Was Illegal. This Secret Group Defied the Law.

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

via Retro Report on October 14, 2018

Mother’s Friend: Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century America

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

by Lauren MacIvor Thompson via National Museum of Civil War Medicine on February 5, 2017

Coat Hangers and Knitting Needles

A brief history of self-induced abortion.

by Sarah Pripas via Nursing Clio on March 10, 2016

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