Is Roe Dead?
A special issue on the Texas Fetal Heartbeat Act and the future of reproductive freedom
This week, we devote our whole issue to the national debate about the Supreme Court’s decision to allow S.B.8, a Texas law that allows private citizens to sue anyone connected with an abortion after 6 weeks of gestation. If you know someone who would be interested in this issue of Public Seminar, please:
September 9, 2021
Laura Briggs, “Creeping Fascism: The Texas law attacking reproductive justice is the antithesis of both law and democracy.” (September 8, 2021)
Heather Booth and Claire Potter, “Are You Looking for Jane? From 1965 to 1973, the women of Chicago’s Jane Collective took the right to a safe abortion into their own hands. Literally.” (September 6, 2021)
Lauren Gutterman, “How We Are Doing in Texas: S.B. 8 and the hypocrisy of a `pro-life’ state.” (September 8, 2021)
Jill Filipovic, “Texas Women Just Lost Their Right to Their Own Bodies: It’s time to fight back, and time to understand the anti-feminist backlash that allowed this to happen.” (September 3, 2021)
Claire Potter, “Why Does the Texas Legislature Believe That Embryos Have a Heartbeat? Because fake science is part of the American conservative tradition.”(September 8, 2021)
Jessica Bush and Samantha Klein, “Preserving the Life—and Autonomy—of the Mother: By enshrining a Christian stance on abortion in its legal code, Texas has ignored Judaic law and ethics.” (September 8, 2021)
Maria Bucur and Kristen R. Ghodsi, “How Banning Abortion Will Transform America: The Texas ruling takes us one step closer to the state surveillance of Ceaușescu’s Romania.” (September 7, 2021)
Heather Cox Richardson, “Handing Power Back to the Vigilantes: Texas’s new abortion ban erodes the power of the federal government to protect civil rights, and there is no reason that this mechanism couldn’t be used to undermine much more.” (September 7, 2021)
John Stoehr, “By Turning Law Enforcement Over to ‘Abortion Vigilantes,’ Texas Uses Lawlessness to Destabilize Equal Treatment Under Law: So far, it has the Supreme Court’s blessing.” (September 8, 2021)
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