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An activist holds up a placard in Nairobi on April 24, 2019, to demand the removal of advertisements with misleading information on the constitutional right to abortion. Experts fear the U.S. ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson will embolden the anti-reproductive justice movement in Kenya and other countries. (Simon Maina / AFP via Getty Images)

BY MICHELLE ONELLO | The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which ruled that there is no U.S. constitutional right to abortion, will have ripple effects around the world. It will embolden anti-abortion movements abroad, contribute to global stigmatization of abortion, cause confusion for policy implementation and open the door for new restrictions—all of which will negatively impact the health, economic resources and well-being of women throughout the world.  

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A demonstration outside the U.S. Supreme Court on March 4, 2020, as the Court heard oral arguments in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, regarding a Louisiana abortion restriction. (Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images)

BY KATHLEEN B. CASEY | Having honest conversations about our nation’s history in and outside the classroom is as urgent as ever. Despite Alito’s protestations, abortion has been and will continue to be an integral part of our nation’s past, present and future.

A closer look at American women’s past and present—where nearly one in four women obtain an abortion by the age of 45—illustrates that abortion has deep roots, which began centuries before Roe v. Wade and will continue long after Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

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Jennifer Baumgardner is a writer, activist, filmmaker, lecturer and former editor at Ms. Today, she’s the editor-in-chief of the Women’s Review of Books and the publisher of Dottir, an independent feminist press. (Courtesy of Jennifer Baumgardner)

BY ELEANOR J. BADER | Jennifer Baumgardner, founder and editor of LIBER: A Feminist Review, believes that a literary journal can be a place where women’s history intersects with today’s most pressing feminist debates. Baumgardner and Charis Caputo, LIBER’s senior editor, aim to include “a lot of diferent perspecives and be a big feminist tent for as many people as possible.”

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