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Efforts to regulate women’s bodies

Ruth Fletcher (Queen Mary): Conscientious Objection, Harm Reduction and Abortion Care. Sherry F. Colb (Cornell): Never Having Loved at All. From ThinkProgress, Tara Culp-Ressler and Erica Hellerstein on pricing American women out of abortion, one restriction at a time; and a look at how abortion bans are putting women behind bars. GOP State Rep. Sarah Davis warns women will die if Texas keeps defunding Planned Parenthood. David R Quintanilla (LSE): Unlimited Government: When Conservative Efforts to Regulate Women's Bodies Reach Beyond the Grave. Renee Bracey Sherman: “When I was 19, I had an abortion. It was the best decision of my life”. The abortion tipping point: Ester Bloom on when “I'm pregnant!” stops being the end of the world. Who has abortions? Katha Pollitt on how we can, and should, support trans men and other gender-non-conforming people without erasing women from the fight for reproductive rights. A “crisis pregnancy center” tells woman her IUD was a baby. March for Life, the group behind America's biggest anti-abortion march, now says birth control causes abortions. Neil Siegel (Duke) and Reva Siegel (Yale): Griswold at 50: Contraception as a Sex Equality Right. Reva Siegel (Yale): Griswold at 50: How Conflict Entrenched the Right to Privacy. Jula Hughes (New Brunswick): From Abortions to Sex Work: What Decriminalization Can Teach Us About Stigma in Criminal Law. Sarah Erdreich on what slut-shamers have in common with anti-abortion activists.