Leslie Reagan

Author; Professor of History, Medicine and Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois.

Professor of History, Medicine and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois.  She’s the author of “When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973” and “Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America

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For most of American history, abortion has been legal, outlawed only from 1867 to 1973. Now the U.S. Supreme Court might outlaw it again by overturning Roe v. Wade.

Supreme Court could outlaw abortion once again

For most of American history, abortion has been legal, outlawed only from 1867 to 1973. Now the U.S. Supreme Court might outlaw it again by overturning Roe v. Wade.

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