University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: 2024 Symposium

Before “the Supreme Court Bail[ed] Us Out”: Feminist Claims for Abortion Rights and the Constitutional History of Roe v. Wade

By Felicia Kornbluh. With a Supreme Court majority hostile to reproductive rights claims, it is a comfort and perhaps an inspiration to learn from history that there are a variety of other institutions and mechanisms through which people did, and still can, meaningfully advance their rights claims outside the Supreme Court.