Amy Kesselman, SUNY at New Paltz
Women versus Connecticut: Insights from the Pre-Roe Abortion Battles
Comment: Linda Gordon, New York University

Thursday, December 12, 2013, at 5:30 p.m.
Location: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston

In the early 1970s lawsuit Abele v. Markle, Women versus Connecticut
coupled litigation with grassroots organizing in a strategy that stimulated public discussion of reproductive rights and brought women’s experiences of Connecticut’s abortion laws to bear on what went on in the courtroom. The story illustrates the role of the feminist reproductive rights movement in shaping Roe v. Wade.

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