Of Rape and Roe

What the war on women means for pregnant teenagers.

By Ann Russo

Forty years after Roe v. Wade, even as polls show a majority of Americans supporting women’s reproductive rights, the possibilities for women’s reproductive justice feel surprisingly dim. Each day, it seems, brings another effort to undermine and attack women&rsquo [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

  • Reader Comments

    Hi Ann,

    thank you so.so. much for sharing your story. I’ve been trying (And failing) to have a discussion with some pro-lifers. I feel very much the way you do.  Do you think your life would have turned out differently if you had gone another direction 37 years ago?

    Posted by Bri on Feb 10, 2013 at 6:18 PM

    Class and gender are deeply intertwined in the US. When America embraced the war against the poor, it embraced a war against women, ensuring that the overwhelming majority of US women have a choice of being in poverty or essentially belonging to a man who is middle class or rich. We began making slow progress in the early 1970s, but when we took an ax to social insurance (welfare), vitally important to keeping families housed and fed through economic downturns, we cut the rungs off of that proverbial ladder out of poverty.

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    Posted by Mingli Yi on Feb 21, 2013 at 2:12 AM