Political Ecosystem

Family Planning: Institutionalization, Criminalization, and Racialization

Reproductive Racism

A mom was charged with child neglect for using medical marijuana while pregnant. The Arizona case could set a precedent. by Cecilia Nowell

A Right-Wing Think Tank Is Trying to Bring Down the Indian Child Welfare Act. Why? by Rebecca Clarren

Abortion on Demand: A Second Wave Feminist Demand by Linda Napikoski

Abortion and Contraception in the Middle Ages by Roland Betancourt

America’s Forgotten History of Forced Sterilization by Sanjana Manjeshwar

Hundreds More Unmarked Graves Found at Former Residential School in Canada by Ian Austen & Dan Bilefsky

Key facts about the abortion debate in America by Carrie Blazina, Michael Lipka & John Gramlich

Ministries of Presence and Support: How Clergy Can Become Abortion-Rights Advocates by Latishia James-Portis

Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition Webinars - Ep 1 & 2 by The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition

Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition Webinars - Ep 3 & 4 by The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition

Native Leaders Brief Congress on Reproductive Health Priorities by Katelyn Burns

“Normal Exposure” and Inoculation Syphilis: A PHS “Tuskegee” Doctor in Guatemala, 1946–1948 by Susan M. Reverby

Prenatal Care for Undocumented Immigrants: Implications for Policy, Practice, and Ethics by Rachel Fabi

Rep. Cori Bush Testifies on Black Maternal Health and Says Her 2 Kids Nearly Died During Childbirth by Julie Mazziotta

Study Links Disparities in Pain Management to Racial Bias by Fariss Samarrai

The Fight Over Native American Adoptions Is About More Than Just the Children by Abigail Abrams

The Fight Over Native American Adoptions Is About More Than Just the Children by Abigail Abrams

The History and Harm of Anti-Abortion Terrorism by Kyra Young

The real question is: Who benefits from Texas’ new abortion law? by Asha Dahya

The Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act and Its Reception in Rhode Island by Stacie Taranto

The "superpredator" myth was discredited, but it continues to ruin young black lives by Rachel Leah

Wellesley professor unearths a horror: Syphilis experiments in Guatemala by Stephen Smith

What Margaret Sanger Really Said About Eugenics and Race by Jennifer Latson

Women need safer options than giving birth in hospitals during pandemic - OpEd by Lauren K. Hall

Cave, A. (2003). Abuse of power: Andrew Jackson and the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The Historian 65(6), 1330-1353. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24452618

Greenwood, B. N., Hardeman, R. R., Huang, L., & Sojourner, A. (2020) Physician–patient racial concordance and disparities in birthing mortality for newborns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (35) https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1913405117

Hardeman, R. R. & Karbeah, J. (2020). Examining racism in health services research: A disciplinary self-critique. Health Services Research 55(52), 773-901. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.13558

Taranto, S. (2012). Ellen McCormack for President: Politics and an Improbable Path to Passing Anti-abortion Policy. Journal of Policy History, 24(2), 263-287. doi:10.1017/S0898030612000048

Tone, A. (2000). Black market birth control: Contraceptive entrepreneurship and criminality in the gilded age. Journal of American History 87(2), 435-459

The Eugenics Crusade - PBS Film

"The Eugenics Crusade tells the story of the unlikely –– and largely unknown –– movement that turned the fledgling scientific theory of heredity into a powerful instrument of social control."

Bureau of Indian Affairs Website - U.S. Department of the Interior

Forward Together.org

Indian Health Service Report: Medical Research on Native Americans legal report

Infant Mortality CDC website

Maternal Mortality CDC website

Population and Reproductive Health website by Smith College

Reproductive Justice Agenda: A historical three-day meeting was held in Pierre, South Dakota, on May 16th, 17th, and 18th, 1990. More than 30 Native Women, representing over eleven Nations from the Northern Plains came together in a collective decision-making process to form a Reproductive Justice Coalition. Their efforts resulted in an Agenda for Native Women's Reproductive Justice.

Roe v. Wade 40th Anniversary Interview with Dorothy Roberts by Liz Chen

The Dark History of Medical Experimentation from the Nazis to Tuskegee to Puerto Rico Transcript interview of Susan Reverby by Amanda Goodman

The Destruction of American Indian Families - by William Byler

The Feminist Sexual Ethics Project website by Brandeis University

The World's Abortion Laws - Center for Reproductive Rights

Voices of Feminism Oral History Project Transcript interview of Charon Asetoyer by Joyce Follet

Voices of Feminism Oral History Project Transcript interview of Katsi Cook by Joyce Follet

Who Should be Allowed to Adopt Native American Children? - huffpost.com