“We allow the massacre of a million and a half babies a year under the guise of women’s reproductive health…It […]
Community Organizing for Health Justice: Reproductive Justice Activism and the Coalition to Fight Infant Mortality
An enduring struggle for communities of color, infant mortality is a major issue especially for pregnant Black women and their […]
A Review of Leonard M. Lopoo’s Wanting Children: Family-Planning Policies and the Engineering of America’s Population (University of Chicago Press, 2026).
Since its inception in 1970, Title X – the United States government’s federal family planning program – has primarily focused […]
Registration of Maternity Homes Act, 1934: Institutional inadequacy and indifference in Irish maternity homes
A breaking headline from 2014 reads: “Ireland Investigates Alleged Discovery of 800 Babies in Sewer Tank.”[1] Historian Catherine Corless, who […]
“Presumptive Testimony Only”: From Esther Davis to Patience Rousseau, Two Centuries of Criminalizing Pregnancy Loss
In summer 1802, a Baltimore jury convicted Esther Davis of murdering her newborn child. The newspapers that carried the story […]
Review of Abortion Stories: American Literature before Roe v. Wade, ed. Karen Weingarten (Penguin Classics, 2025)
Abortion Stories: 9780143138204 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books The U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in June 2022 […]
Seductions of the Transparent Body: X-Rays, A.I. Body Scans, and Cancer
There is no escaping cancer in the algorithm. In the months after finishing chemotherapy, targeted ads for A.I.-powered body scans […]
Love Transcripts: The Hidden Lesbian Love Letters of Dr Kathleen Lynn
Upon entering the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) and walking through its halls, the most prominent thing that […]
A Surgeon’s Case in the History of Intersex Medicine in Colombia
One day, while scrolling through social media, I came across the story of Santiago, a Colombian intersex man who underwent […]
“About My Body, Let the World Do What It Will:” Suicide Letters, Immigrant Women, and Structural Violence
On Sunday March 8, 1914, twenty-six-year-old Rosa Asorowsky, a “Russian Jewess” and sweatshop worker, committed suicide in Chicago.[1] Next to […]
