Last month, the Alabama State Senate passed a piece of legislation effectively banning abortion in the state of Alabama. House […]
![A bunch of mostly white people marching along a bike trail with signs that say women deserve better than abortion and STOP abortion.](https://i0.wp.com/nursingclio.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/3234200197_f513e40ca4_b.jpg?fit=640%2C428&ssl=1)
Last month, the Alabama State Senate passed a piece of legislation effectively banning abortion in the state of Alabama. House […]
This essay was first published at Fugitive Leaves, the blog of The History Medical Library of The College of Physicians […]
On December 8, 1971, a Presbyterian pastor in Greenville, SC counseled three women on their “problem pregnancies,” ultimately connecting them […]
On the evening of April 17, 1956, thirty-three-year-old Helen O. visited nurse Mamie Cadden at 17 Hume Street, Dublin, for […]
For the last decade, I’ve been reading and writing about other women’s pain. Contractions lasting 72 hours. Feverish deliriums after […]
In May, NC editor Cassia Roth and Diana Paton organized the Intimate Politics: Fertility Control in a Global Historical Perspective […]
Citizens of the Republic of Ireland will vote on a referendum on May 25, 2018 to potentially overturn the state’s […]
Recently, the University of Edinburgh awarded Joan Scott an honorary doctorate in social science. The hooding ceremony seemed more like […]
“Charleston was the place to come before Roe v. Wade, for abortions.” Reminiscing about illegal abortion in South Carolina in […]
There have been any number of smart, critical takes on the #MeToo movement and the wave of sexual harassment allegations […]