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- Title
Editorial Note: Mothers, Motherly Love, Bodily Autonomy, and Archival Silences.
- Authors
Holguín, Sandie; Davis, Jennifer J.
- Abstract
In June, as this issue began wending its way through the production process, the US Supreme Court overturned I Roe v. Wade i , stripping away the bodily autonomy of all potentially pregnant people. For years, we have watched state legislators draft bills intended to restrict abortion access in the state; we have seen abortion providers harassed and threatened. How one conceived of the child-mother proved difficult in an age when citizens viewed children as symbols of purity, when the age of legal sexual consent was ten or twelve in most states (seven in Delaware) - although the age of marital consent was much higher in most cases - and before medical professionals defined "adolescence" as a developmental stage worthy of protection in its own right. 3 Sara Cline, "Louisiana Woman Denied Abortion Wants "Vague" State Ban Clarified", I Los Angeles Times i , Aug. 26, 2022: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-08-26/louisiana-woman-denied-abortion-wants-vague-ban-clarified; Solcyre Burga, "How a 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Who Traveled for an Abortion Became Part of a Political Firestorm", I Time i , July 15, 2022: https://time.com/6198062/rape-victim-10-abortion-indiana-ohio/ 4 Katie Shepherd, Rachel Ruben, and Caroline Kitchener, "1 in 3 American Women Have Already Lost Abortion Access.
- Subjects
MOTHERS; ENSLAVED persons; SOCIAL status; RAPE; CHILD sexual abuse; KINSHIP; AMERICANS; COLONIES; CHILD trafficking
- Publication
Journal of Women's History, 2022, Vol 34, Issue 4, p7
- ISSN
1042-7961
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jowh.2022.0033