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By Michelle Oberman and W. David Ball Ms. Oberman and Mr. Ball teach criminal law. 1302 A man in Atlanta protesting Georgia’s restrictive abortion law in May. CreditElijah Nouvelage/Getty Images A man in Atlanta protesting Georgia’s restrictive abortion law in May. CreditCreditElijah Nouvelage/Getty Images Abortion opponents won major victories last week when Louisiana lawmakers voted to ban abortions as early as six weeks into a woman’s pregnancy and the Supreme Court upheld an Indiana law requiring the burial of fetal remains in Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky Inc. So what happens if Roe v. Wade falls? Abortion won’t disappear. Our research shows that countries where abortion is illegal  have higher  rates of abortion than in the United States — figures which are largely a function of unwanted pregnancies. Nearly  half of all pregnancies here are unintended, of which  four  in 10 end ...

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On July 4, 1876, during the Centennial Celebration of the Declaration of Independence, the National Woman Suffrage Association adopted a ringing Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States. The association sought equal rights for women and particularly the right to vote. This is the declaration:

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Female animals were once deemed too hormonal and messy for science. Some scientists warn it’s not enough to just use more female lab rats.Hormones in female research subjects have long been blamed for creating “messy” lab results. “Everything is measured to the male scale,” said one neurobiologist.CreditHulton Archive/Getty Images By  JoAnna Klein May 30, 2019 Say you are prescribed medication for depression, anxiety or even just to sleep. Would you want to take it if you knew that the drug had only been tested on men and male animals? Rebecca Shansky, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University in Boston, thinks you might not . When she tells nonscientific audiences that researchers “for the most part don’t study female animals, people are blown away,” she said. She added: “It seems like such an obvious thing to a normal person. But when you come up in the academic and science world, it’s like, ‘Oh no, females are so complicated, so we just don’t s...

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I will tell you what I know of the way silence grows roots inside of a person, until all that is left is a brutal, crushing vacancy where a voice ought to be. I was 17 when I was raped by a classmate. He was someone I knew, someone I trusted, but in the end, none of that mattered. I would not find out until eight months later that I was pregnant as a result of the assault. My daughter, Zoe, would grow inside of me with a fatal congenital birth defect that took away her ability to think, or emote, or connect to the world in all the fundamental ways that make a life worth living.REAL LIFE. REAL NEWS. REAL VOICES.Help us tell more of the stories that matter from voices that too often remain unheard. Learn More I was forced to give birth to the child of this rape, always connected in some way to the man who took so much from me. I lived in Alabama, which this week welcomed a draconian new abortion law , but the state’s politicians have never borne any ethical compunctions about...