“But if we also remember that the history of gynecology is really tied up, again, with the right or the absence of Black women’s bodily autonomy, because so many of the experimentations that were carried on and that led to so many cesarean sections, for example, as well as all kinds of other kinds of surgical repairs of women’s wombs were done on African American women.” — Deborah White
“It’s really impossible to separate the story of the history of reproductive politics, reproductive justice, abortion politics from the history of slavery, of race, of controlling women’s bodies.” — Sarah Dubow
“They also began passing laws that were designed, in their words, to chip away at Roe. The idea would be that not only would abortion be inaccessible but the very idea of an abortion right would become kind of incoherent, so you’d say, oh yay, there’s an abortion right, but no one could actually have an abortion, and that would erode support in the judiciary as well…” — Mary Ziegler |
