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40 Years of Stability in American Attitudes toward the Legalization of Abortion
By Michele Dillon News headlines frequently convey what is alleged to be a major shift in public opinion on abortion. At the beginning of February this year, for example, NBC online news had the...
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Refreshing the Movement
By Sujatha Jesudason A long-time soldier and sometime general in the battle for reproductive freedom, I have marched, organized rallies, served on boards, testified before legislators, sent letters,...
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Moving Forward or Standing Still? The Battle Over Abortion in the 21st Century
By Deana Rohlinger It is difficult to predict the future of social movements. The political world is in flux; so are the composition and dynamics of the social movements operating in it. This makes it...
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40 Years Later: Let’s Get Honest about Abortion, Roe, and Women’s Equality
By Erika Bachiochi Last month, Time magazine hit a nerve in both pro-life and pro-choice camps with its front cover story pronouncing that pro-lifers were winning the abortion wars—after having lost...
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Roe at 40: Long-Term Trajectories of Reproductive Movements
Inspired by the recent 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and recent media reports of stronger support for legal abortions under all or most circumstances, we have asked scholars and activists to address...
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Don’t Forget Parties and Policy Legacies
By Drew Halfmann Many of the essays in this Mobilizing Ideas dialogue examine the successes and failures of the abortion movements—arguing for example that the anti-abortion movement succeeded by...
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More than Roe: Are Researchers Ready for Reproductive Justice?
By Zakiya Luna The long-term consequences of reproductive movements post-Roe are varied, but one of the most important has been the coalescing of the movement for reproductive justice. When I first...
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Toward a “Pro Lives” Perspective that Values the Lives of Pregnant Women and...
By Jeanne Flavin and Lynn Paltrow As other contributors to this series have observed, “pro life” and “pro choice” do not adequately capture the dimensions and diversity of opinions and experiences that...
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Framing the Fight
By Myra Marx Ferree Several of the commentators on this blog have already raised the issue of how to get beyond the classic framing of “pro-choice” vs “pro-life,” even as others use these...
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Roe at 40: Round Two
In our second round of essays on the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, contributors dig further into the discursive issues surrounding reproductive movements and the implications of political and policy...
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