Natalia Gerodetti and Véronique Mottier This post is a re-introduction to the 2009 Feminist Theory special issue on Feminism(s) and the Politics of Reproduction The much anticipated news of the US Supreme Court’s decision in late June 2022 to repudiate the constitutional protection of abortion rights could not have been worse for women’s reproductive rights … Continue reading Feminism(s) and the Politics of Reproduction, 2022/2009

Bex Heimbrock The US Supreme Court did not simply do away with abortion rights, they exposed the legal fiction of personhood for a majority of this country.  Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurring opinion on the reversal of Roe explicitly invites the court to reconsider all prior substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. ‘Obergefell’ … Continue reading Roe v. Wade is a Queer Issue; Liberals must treat it as such

Zoe L. Tongue, PhD candidate in Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences) On June 24, in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health (2022), the US Supreme Court overturned the constitutional protection for pre-viability abortion confirmed in Roe v. Wade (1973) and the ‘undue burden’ threshold for restrictions on abortion … Continue reading Abortion after Dobbs

Kristina Saunders, Lecturer in Sociology Since the leaked US Supreme Court draft opinion on Roe v. Wade and its eventual overturning in June 2022, heightened attention has been drawn to self-managed abortion (SMA) (Gerson, 2022; Becker and McMahon, 2022). The World Health Organisation (WHO) (2020) support the provision of SMA, and some governments have continued … Continue reading Taking matters into your own hands? Thinking through the social and political logics of IUC self-removal

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Emily Gowen The office door is open just wide enough for you to see a woman taking an afternoon nap. Even asleep, she seems disarmingly self-assured, like she wouldn’t mind you seeing her sprawled out on her couch in the middle of the day. On a table beside her there is a doll. It has … Continue reading Dr. Heller

Marion Stevens, Founding director of the Sexual and Reproductive Justice Coalition in South Africa and PhD candidate| SARChI Chair in Gender Politics, Department of Political Science, Stellenbosch University. The persistence of political and cultural wars in the United States has resonance in South Africa. With the leak of the Supreme Court opinion in early May … Continue reading The Impact of Overturning Roe v. Wade in South Africa

Dr Pam Lowe, Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Policy Dept., Aston University, Birmingham and Dr Sarah-Jane Page, Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Policy Dept., Aston University, Birmingham The overturning of the Roe vs Wade precedent, the case which gave a right to abortion in the US, has renewed global attention on the anti-abortion movement. Whilst it is … Continue reading Abortion Bans and the Anti-Abortion Movement: Understanding Ultra-Sacrificial Motherhood

Candace Johnson, University of Guelph, Canada Abstract The leaked US Supreme Court draft decision revealed what was to come less than two months later: Roe v. Wade would be overturned, and with it, constitutional protections for women’s right to an abortion. In this article I argue that the effects of the loss of the right to abortion are significant for American … Continue reading Drafting Injustice: Overturning Roe v. Wade, Spillover Effects, and Reproductive Rights in Context