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"As someone born in the mid-nineteen-eighties, I grew up taking the legality of abortion as a given. It struck me as an immutable part of How We Live Now, a battle that earlier generations had fought and largely resolved. I realize today how wrong that presumption was—how ignorant, in particular, of the experiences faced by huge numbers of women across America who still have to overcome serious obstacles in order to obtain reproductive care."
— Sarah Stillman on the reality of Roe v. Wade, forty years later: http://nyr.kr/Svwukc -
Roe v. Wade in the Archive
Roe v. Wade is turning forty next week. A look back, through the New Yorker archive: http://nyr.kr/UBcbAi
(Source: newyorker.com)
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Forty years after the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade—the anniversary is on January 22nd—the debate over the case, and abortion, hasn’t cooled off. If anything, it has only become more controversial. “[Roe] was, I think it’s safe to say, the galvanizing force of the new right, the religiously oriented conservative movement,” Jeffrey Toobin says on this week’s Political Scene podcast. He and Jill Lepore join host Dorothy Wickenden to discuss Roe and the politics surrounding abortion and contraception today.
Listen to the podcast, and click-through for more: http://nyr.kr/SSbntA
(Source: newyorker.com / The New Yorker)
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This is Forty→
Jill Lepore on the “backlash argument” that has followed the Roe v. Wade decision, made forty years ago: http://nyr.kr/V9MuXD
Photograph by Brendan Hoffman/Getty.
