TMC Topic Guide
Reproductive rights
Created: July 5, 2022
Last Updated: January 15, 2023
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Table of contents
U.S. opinion on Roe v. Wade
The abortion rights movement
The antiabortion movement
Effects of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade
Reproductive justice and activism
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court partisanship
Science
Antiabortion state politics
Alabama
Kansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Gender politics
Congress
Religion
Companies influencing policy
2022 midterm election
Reproductive rights internationally
Latin America
Europe
U.S. opinion on Roe v. Wade
- Jake Grumbach and Christopher Warshaw, “In many states with antiabortion laws, majorities favor abortion rights,” June 25, 2022.
- Kieran Healy, “Half of Americans support abortion on demand,” May 4, 2022.
- Rebecca J. Kreitzer, Abigail A. Matthews, and Emily U. Schilling, “Conservative Republican women have led the fight to restrict abortion,” May 3, 2022.
- Anne Whitesell and Eleanor Schiff, “Women who’ve been pregnant are more likely to support abortion rights — if you remind them of their pregnancies,” June 3, 2019.
- Leah C. Stokes, “Alabama state legislators are wrong about their voters’ opinions on abortion,” May 28, 2019.
The abortion rights movement
The antiabortion movement
- Rebecca J. Kreitzer, Abigail A. Matthews, and Emily U. Schilling, “Conservative Republican women have led the fight to restrict abortion,” May 3, 2022.
- Amanda Hollis-Brusky and Joshua C. Wilson, “The Supreme Court might overturn Roe. It took decades of scorched-earth conservative politics to get here,” May 3, 2022.
- Susan Roberts, “Surprised by all these abortion bans? Meet Americans United for Life — the most significant antiabortion group you’ve never heard of,” May 31, 2019.
- Melissa Deckman, “Can pro-choice and pro-life women find common ground? It's complicated,” January 10, 2017.
Effects of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade
- Julie M. Norman, “Violence against antiabortion groups is rising. Here’s what we know,” June 29, 2022.
- Christine M. Slaughter and Chelsea N. Jones, “How Black women will be especially affected by the loss of Roe,” June 25, 2022.
- Erin Heidt-Forsythe, Nicole Kalaf-Hughes, and Heather Silber Mohamed, “Roe is gone. How will state abortion restrictions affect IVF and more?” June 25, 2022.
- Deana A. Rohlinger, “Abortion rights protests have been peaceful. Will that change?” May 11, 2022.
- Rebecca Best, “Why risk for violence in U.S. rises without Roe,” May 10, 2022.
- Rebecca J. Kreitzer and Candis Watts Smith, “What Alito’s draft gets wrong about women and political power,” May 6, 2022.
- Rachel VanSickle-Ward and Kevin Wallsten, “If the Supreme Court undermines Roe v. Wade, contraception could be banned,” May 3, 2022.
Reproductive justice and activism
- Deana A. Rohlinger, “Abortion rights protests have been peaceful. Will that change?” May 11, 2022.
- Rachel VanSickle-Ward and Kevin Wallsten, “If the Supreme Court undermines Roe v. Wade, contraception could be banned,” May 3, 2022.
- Kaitlin Kelly-Thompson, “Protesting for reproductive rights on International Women’s Day? Here are some lessons from the Women’s March,” March 8, 2022.
- Kevin Wallsten and Rachel VanSickle-Ward, “What’s next after the Supreme Court’s birth control ruling?” July 18, 2020.
U.S. Supreme Court
- Paul M. Collins Jr. and Artemus Ward, “Why have so many Americans come to mistrust the Supreme Court?” September 20, 2022.
- Julie Novkov, “You’ve seen the leaked opinion overturning Roe. Here’s what comes next,” May 3, 2022.
- Amanda Hollis-Brusky and Joshua C. Wilson, “The Supreme Court might overturn Roe. It took decades of scorched-earth conservative politics to get here,” May 3, 2022.
- Alison Gash and Joshua C. Wilson, “The Supreme Court is taking suspect science seriously. Conservative groups have worked for years for that,” December 15, 2021.
- Mary Ziegler, “The Supreme Court just took a case that could kill Roe v. Wade — or let it die slowly,” May 18, 2021.
- Mary Ziegler, “Supreme Court will consider whether states can ‘protect’ women from abortion. What’s behind that argument?” March 3, 2020.
- Laura Moyer, “The Supreme Court, not just three female justices, spoke loudly on women’s reproductive rights,” June 29, 2016.
Supreme Court partisanship
Science
Antiabortion state politics
Alabama
Kansas
- Eli Rau, Radha Sarkar, and Susan Stokes, “Kansas voted for abortion rights. What does that mean for the midterms?” August 25, 2022.
- Emily B. Jackson and Angie Torres-Beltran, “What does the Kansas vote tell us about the future of abortion?” August 16, 2022.
- Nathaniel Birkhead, “The Kansas abortion vote, in one graph,” August 6, 2022.
- Zoe Nemerever, “Kansans voted to protect abortion rights. Why?” August 4, 2022.
Louisiana
Mississippi
Gender politics
- Allyson F. Shortle, Eric L. McDaniel, and Irfan Nooruddin, “Americans are growing more accepting of Christian nationalism,” September 1, 2022.
- Tarah Williams and Paul Testa, “Men can help persuade other men on women’s rights, our research finds,” May 25, 2022.
- Rebecca Best, “Why risk for violence in U.S. rises without Roe,” May 10, 2022.
- Kelsy Kretschmer, Leah Ruppanner, and Christopher Stout, “Democrats are losing White women. Will repealing Roe bring them back?” May 5, 2022.
- Anne Whitesell and Eleanor Schiff, “Women who’ve been pregnant are more likely to support abortion rights — if you remind them of their pregnancies,” June 3, 2019.
- Amanda Clayton, Diana Z. O'Brien, and Jennifer M. Piscopo, “Americans don't like it when men (and only men) make decisions about women,” April 4, 2017.
- Laura Moyer, “The Supreme Court, not just three female justices, spoke loudly on women’s reproductive rights,” June 29, 2016.
Congress
Religion
Companies influencing policy
2022 midterm election
Reproductive rights internationally
Latin America
- Sarah Moore and Kiran Stallone “In Colombia, abortion is no longer a crime. But rural women will still find it hard to get one,” March 15, 2022.
- Taylor Boas, Mariela Daby, Mason Moseley, and Amy Erica Smith, “Argentina legalized abortion. Here’s how it happened and what it means for Latin America,” January 18, 2021
- Mariela Daby and Mason Moseley, “Argentina is about to debate legalizing abortion — despite being a very Catholic country,” March 6, 2020.
- Julia María Rubio, “This is why Argentina did not legalize abortion this week,” August 11, 2018.
Europe