A Published Roundtable on Griswold v. Connecticut

We learn, via Barbara Sicherman, Trinity College , that “a roundtable on Griswold v. Connecticut , originally presented at the American Ass...

Brophy and Troutman on Eugenics in North Carolina

Alfred L. Brophy, University of North Carolina School of Law, and Elizabeth Lea Troutman , an alumna of North Carlina Law, have posted The ...

Thank You, Mary Ziegler!

Thank you, Mary Ziegler, for a series of posts as a guest blogger this month relating to her book After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortio...

Writing Abortion History

As I end my time on Legal History Blog, there is another issue worth discussing: the challenges of writing the history of an issue as divisi...

Compromise and Marital-Status Discrimination

At the heart of After Roe  is a story about when and why conflict about abortion and gender escalated. Before writing the book, I believed t...

The Politicization of Privacy

Like many of my students, I found myself confused the first time I read the Roe decision. I had always believed that the Court had recognize...

Liberals and Religious Conscience

With the courts still grappling with challenges to the contraceptive mandate of the Affordable Care Act, conscience-based objections will li...

Population Control, Immigration, and Environmentalism

Population controllers are some of the most fascinating characters to appear in After Roe . Some of these activists, like former Columbia st...