Before Roe: A podcast about abortion access before the landmark Supreme Court case.
By Quinn Charner-Laird
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A CDC graph showing approximate numbers of maternal deaths during legal vs. illicit abortions
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A theoretical anti-abortion amendment to the US constitution
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An original print of the Roe vs. Wade slip opinion
Sources:
New York Law Forum: “The Phoenix of Abortional Freedom”, Cyril C Means Jr.
Donna B. Jacobson; When Abortion Became Illegal: The Degraded Reverend Rogers, Trial, & The Connecticut General Assembly, 1815–1830. Connecticut History Review 1 January 2019; 58 (2): 49–81. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/connhistrevi.58.2.0049
Hardin, Garrett, and Search for more articles by this author. “Abortion in America. the Origins and Evolution of National Policy, 1800-1900. James C. Mohr: The Quarterly Review of Biology: Vol 53, No 4.” The Quarterly Review of Biology, 1 Dec. 1978, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/410954.
Abortion Collection, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
Dorothy Kenyon Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.