Abortion is socially and politically contested--and has been for a long time. But how society thinks about abortion, how and whether it is regulated, and who has access to it has varied by place and time.
I'm a medical sociologist. My recent chapter in The Nursing Clio Reader is called "Who Roe Failed: Class and Race in Abortion Before Dobbs." It's about what was happening with abortion access in the US even while abortion was a constitutionally protected right. My new edited volume is When Roe Fell: How Barriers, Inequities, and Systemic Failures of Justice in Abortion Became Visible. It features chapters on the history, politics, and practical experiences of abortion leading up to the overturning of the constitutional right to abortion in 2022, placing that change in a longer history of abortion in the United States.
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