Moyers on Today’s Abortion Debate
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Roe v. Wade at 40
Guttmacher Institute By the Numbers (ThinkProgress): 70: Percentage of Americans who now oppose overturning Roe, the highest number since 1989. Most religious groups also want to leave Roe in place 135: Number of new state-level abortion restrictions enacted over the past two years. 2011 and 2012 represented the worst years…
Roe v Wade and the New Jane Crow: Reproductive Rights in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Excellent article in the American Journal of Public Health by Lynn M. Paltrow: IN HER BOOK THE NEW JIM Crow, Michelle Alexander argues that the system of mass incarceration in the United States, fueled by the war on drugs, operates in a seemingly color-blind, race-neutral way to create a new…
Four Ways A Romney Supreme Court Would Change The Constitution Without Amending It
From ThinkProgress: Here are just four ways that Romney’s appointees would vote to effectively rewrite the Constitution if given the chance to do so: Eliminating The Right To An Abortion: Roe v. Wade is already on life support. The Court’s current majority weakened the longstanding rule ensuring that women may…