When Roe Fell: How Barriers, Inequities, and Systemic Failures of Justice in Abortion Became Visible

When Roe Fell examines the history, politics, and practical experiences of abortion leading up to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, placing this judicial decision in a longer history of abortion in the United States. Contributors delve into what the end of Roe revealed about abortion seekers, abortion provision, and abortion advocacy, demystifying abortion and abortion research, laying bare common misunderstandings and misinformation, and belying claims that the fall of Roe ＂changed everything.＂ Moving beyond legal frameworks, this volume is an opportunity to reorient scholarship and understanding about abortion, recognizing what was already true before Roe was overturned and how losing the protections of Roe forced, enabled, and perhaps even facilitated a new era of abortion.

KATRINA KIMPORT is Professor in the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) program at University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of No Real Choice: How Culture and Politics Matter for Reproductive Autonomy (Rutgers University Press, 2022) and Queering Marriage: Challenging Family Formation in the United States (Rutgers University Press, 2014).