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Asking About Abortion

Carole Joffe ▪ March 11, 2016

While Hillary Clinton’s and Bernie Sander’s positions and voting records on abortion may be similar, Clinton has engaged more proactively with the issue, even if not always perfectly.

Will Obama’s Child Care Vision Overcome Nixon’s Legacy?

Carole Joffe ▪ January 27, 2015

President Obama’s forceful comments on the need for federal support of child care programs were one of the most notable aspects of his recent State of the Union address. As he said, “It’s time we stop treating child care as …

Putting Hobby Lobby in Context: The Erratic Career of Birth Control in the United States

Carole Joffe ▪ July 9, 2014

Originally posted on Families as They Really Are at The Society Pages. Nearly fifty years ago, in the 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut case, the Supreme Court declared birth control legal for married persons, and shortly afterwards in another case legalized birth control for single …

Phyllis Schlafly: Still Wrong (and Mean) After All These Years

Carole Joffe ▪ April 22, 2014

“The best way to improve economic prospects for women is to improve job prospects for the men in their lives, even if that means increasing the so-called pay gap.” The above quote is from a recent column by Phyllis Schlafly, arguably the …

The Hidden Work of Abortion Providers

Carole Joffe ▪ January 22, 2014

Unlike their counterparts in other industrialized countries, abortion providers in the United States don’t simply perform abortions. Because of all the ramifications of the abortion wars in this country—the restrictions on the use of public funds, the scarcity of facilities …

Making Abortion Stigma Law

Carole Joffe ▪ July 12, 2013

No school district, employee or agent thereof, or educational service provider contracting with such school district shall provide abortion services. No school district shall permit any person or entity to offer, sponsor or otherwise furnish in any manner any course …

Roe v. Wade and Beyond: Forty Years of Legal Abortion in the United States

Carole Joffe ▪ Winter 2013

This January marked the fortieth anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in the United States. In ways not anticipated by the coalition of physicians and feminist health activists who fought to legalize abortion in the years …