‘It Just Denies Reality’: Abortion Access and the Law After Dobbs
Death, Sex & Money
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The Fear of Personhood in Pregnancy
I got a lot of pushback from abortion rights people because they did not like that I was using parental frames to talk about abortion. What do we lose by not recognizing something that is very intuitive to so many people who have been pregnant before? Jill and Greer were both mourning and feeling alone. They'd heard about each other in the world of legal scholars, but Greer was afraid to reach out. "Once a fetus is a person under the law at any point in pregnancy, it will trump the woman's rights over and over again," she says.
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