“I believe this is the civil-rights violation of our lifetime.” In a startling new investigation, Sarah Stillman reports on the people who are neglected and starving to death in prison—and the private companies and government officials behind the crisis. Abortions aren’t stopping any time soon—indeed, the number of abortions performed in the U.S. actually rose from 2020 to 2023, after the constitutional right to the procedure was eliminated. In “Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction,” Mary Ziegler, a law professor and a leading historian of reproductive politics, traces the back-and-forth of the legislative debate, showing how the argument for personhood is both malleable and strategically deployed.
Author: Hannah Jocelyn
Published at: 2025-04-14 22:00:00
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