P is for Peacock Flower, an abortion-inducing plant native to the Caribbean.

O is for William Ober, author of a 1966 article advocating for the liberalization of abortion laws, published in the Saturday Evening Post — yes, the magazine that we often associate with wholesome No...

Massachusetts law no longer imposes a gestational-age limit on abortion, meaning women can get abortions throughout any point in pregnanct.

N is for nurses, whom I think remain hidden as abortion providers in historical records — which, when abortion was illegal, is just where they would want to be.

The ruling sets the stage for further free speech protections for those who help abortion seekers who cross state lines.

This Substack is about the very long history of abortion, each post is an individual story of a person, plant, or idea. Click to read A is For Abortion: Snapshots From the Past, by Mary Fissell, a Sub...

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

M is for James Gibbons Mills, a Pennsylvania dentist at the center of a significant legal case, Mills v.

L is for Lakshmi Shastri, a character in Alka Joshi’s novel The Henna Artist. Shastri is the rags-to-riches artist of the title, decorating the elite women of Jaipur with elaborate henna designs. But ...

K is for Ernestine Katz and Katie Kennedy.

The fear of losing their lives is precisely what many pregnant Texas residents say they’ve experienced after four young women died in the state when they were unable to access medically necessary abor...

J is for Sarah Orne Jewett, an American writer whose work captured the conversations and landscapes of her beloved rural Maine.

In the post-Roe world, we know that abortion bans don’t stop safe abortions, but they do kill people.

Waiting period before receiving medication was included in draft law to gain support for abortion ban in 2018 referendum

H is for Josephine Herbst, whose experiences of abortion in the 1920s are emblematic of so many women’s struggles.

G is for Genevieve Taggard, an American poet and novelist who wrote a moving account of abortion in her 1922 story “Engagement”.

Francisca is a character in Thomas Middleton’s 1613 play The Witch, set in Ravenna. Aged sixteen, she gets pregnant from her first relationship.

E is for Rosie Evans, a character in Christianna Brand’s 1952 detective novel London Particular. The title refers to a pea-souper of a fog, which London experienced when homes were heated with coal.

The most astonishingly productive historian in recent times is someone you’ll never meet

D is for detective novels.

Those who have been prosecuted after 1861 will be exonerated and those investigated but not charged will have their police record wiped under a new law

C is for Landon Carter, an eighteenth-century Virginia planter whose extensive diary includes details about reproductive knowledge.

B is for Leon Belous, an unsung hero of the reproductive rights movement.

Both of us always mention in our master classes or panels with cinema students to choose a subject that you really like for your projects because you are not sure how long you are going to spend on th...

A Monday report from the Center for Reproductive Rights features various profiles demonstrating "the human and economic toll" of US abortion bans.

A is for al-Razi, the tenth-century Persian doctor, philosopher, and astronomer.

In Sweden, abortion is recognised as essential healthcare—built on decades of research and early innovation. More recently, reforms have enabled midwives to play a central role, making care safer, tim...

Shryock Medal Graduate students are invited to enter the Shryock Medal Essay Contest. The medal honors Richard Harrison Shryock (1893–1972), a pioneer among historians interested in the history of med...

A new study comparing deaths of pregnant people and of those who have an abortion show that risk of death due to pregnancy is three times higher than previously estimated.