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Tag: Roe v. Wade
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Health
Surge in ‘abortion travelers’ to Mass. post-Dobbs
Women are traveling from states as far away as Texas for care, finds Brigham and Women’s study.
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Nation & World
Lessons of Roe, 50 years later
Speakers at Radcliffe conference look at divisive, fraught history, predict where legal battles go next.
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Nation & World
Schlesinger adjusts plans for Roe v. Wade commemoration to new reality
Schlesinger exhibit, conference to examine history, future now that Supreme Court has overturned landmark ruling.
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Nation & World
How Roe got to be Roe
Schlesinger Library holdings document long, pitched dispute over abortion in archival documents, photos, letters, voices of women.
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Nation & World
Clarence Thomas isn’t kidding
Legal scholar Mary Ziegler sees “selective” history in SCOTUS ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and signs that other landmark protections are in jeopardy.
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Health
How a bioethicist and doctor sees abortion
Director of Medical School’s Center for Bioethics discusses ethical dimensions of abortion and how a ruling against Roe might affect providers.
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Nation & World
Softer language post-leak? Maybe, says Tribe, but ruling will remain an ‘iron fist’
Scholar of constitutional law discusses immediate, future implications of breach revealing ruling that would overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Nation & World
Lessons in an unappealing law
Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman ran a Socratic master class to dig beneath the 1927 Supreme Court decision upholding forced sterilization of “mental defectives.”
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Nation & World
Setting the stage for Roe v. Wade
Linda Greenhouse, a former New York Times reporter and now the Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale University, and Reva Siegel, the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale, provided new perspectives on interpreting Roe v. Wade during the 2010-11 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at…
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Nation & World
Defending the Second Amendment
Like a courtroom version of “High Noon,” legal guns are squaring off this year in a confrontation over the Second Amendment. And whoever wins, the battle will touch off a longtime culture war that rivals Roe v. Wade, said National Rifle Association (NRA) President Sandra Froman in an April 5 visit to Harvard.