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The politics of abortion

Mary Ziegler (Florida State): Abortion and the Constitutional Right (Not) to Procreate. Samantha E. Holquist (GWU): Direct Democracy and the Politics of Abortion: Evaluating the Responsiveness of State Abortion Policy to State Abortion Attitudes. Rosalind Simson (Mercer): What Does the Right to Life Really Entail? A Framework for Depolarizing the Abortion Debate. Paula L. Abrams (Lewis & Clark): Abortion Stigma: The Legacy of Casey. Richard F. Duncan (Nebraska): Kermit Gosnell's Babies: Abortion, Infanticide and Looking Beyond the Masks of the Law. Abortion, not easy, not sorry: Why are we pressured to feel that we should regret our choice, and that there's something wrong with us if we don't? Congrats, pro-lifers, you won! Now Katha Pollitt has just a few questions for you. Abortion is great: Hanna Rosin reviews Katha Pollitt’s Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights, a new book argues that the left needs to stop the “awfulization” of abortion and embrace it as a social good (and more and more and more). Unsafe sex, illegal abortion: Trishna Kripalani on an accelerating need for the right to reproductive health. Pregnant, and no civil rights: Lynn M. Paltrow and Jeanne Flavin on how anti-abortion measures are used to control childbirth decisions. Emma Green on what Tennessee's new abortion amendment means for America. Let's just say it: Women matter more than fetuses do. Tara Culp-Rssler on what Americans have forgotten about the era before Roe v. Wade. Max Ehrenfreund on why abortions have fallen to their lowest rate since Roe v. Wade. Stassa Edwards on the history of abortifacients. Erica Hellerstein goes inside American United for Life, the highly sophisticated group that’s quietly making it much harder to get an abortion. America has decided: Sex is for rich people, non-procreative sex in particular — how else would you explain the trap we’re laying for poor people who deign to get it on?