The draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade cites a tradition of laws criminalizing abortion. But that’s not the whole history.
Here & Now‘s Jane Clayson speaks with Leslie Reagan, a history professor at the University of Illinois and author of “When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States.”
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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