Felicia Kornbluh, Ph.D. is a professor of history at the University of Vermont and also teaches in gender, sexuality, and women’s studies and Jewish studies. She is the author of ‘A Woman’s Life is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice’ from which this essay is drawn. She can be found on Twitter @VTFeminist.
Felicia Kornbluh
By Felicia Kornbluh
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Opinion On my mother’s deathbed, I learned she was a pioneering reproductive rights activist
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Yesterday morning, I filed into the Supreme Court, took my seat, and watched history unfold: I was there to observe the oral argument for the first big abortion case of the high Trump era — June Medical Services, LLC v. Russo. This case has the potential, thanks to Trump appointees Neal Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh,…
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