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1 week ago | 
newyorker.com | Margaret Talbot
In the first two years after the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, the number of abortions performed annually in the United States went up. On the face of it, this might seem perplexing. After all, many states seized the opportunity presented by the Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v.
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1 month ago | 
newyorker.com | Margaret Talbot
If you have spent time on Wikipedia—and especially if you’ve delved at all into the online encyclopedia’s inner workings—you will know that it is, in almost every aspect, the inverse of Trumpism. That’s not a statement about its politics. The thousands of volunteer editors who write, edit, and fact-check the site manage to adhere remarkably well, over all, to one of its core values: the neutral point of view.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
jill.substack.com | Colleen Hamilton |Margaret Talbot |Qasim Rashid |Ayesha Noor
Photo by Kelsy Gagnebinon UnsplashHappy Monday! Here are some fine reads from around the web, plus what you might have missed from the newsletter and elsewhere this week. Jill Filipovic is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The Fight for Trans Rights and Abortion Are Inextricably Linked.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Margaret Talbot
This year, for the first time in the roughly sixty-year history of the birth-control pill in the United States, it can be bought over the counter. You might not know about this development—many people I’ve mentioned it to don’t—but you can now find an F.D.A.-approved version of the pill at your drugstore or online, without a prescription, at a cost of about twenty dollars for a one-month supply, or less than fifty dollars for a three-month one.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Margaret Talbot
In today’s newsletter, new reporting from Rania Abouzeid on the toll in Lebanon of the Israel-Hezbollah war. But, first, the fresh relevance of the fight for legal birth control. Plus:• The art dealer who wanted to be artIt’s remarkable how many of the battles fought by early-twentieth-century birth-control activists are being waged again today. Is any contraception, other than the rhythm method and the like, “unnatural” and therefore suspect?
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Margaret Talbot |Johanna Thompson-Hollands
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Margaret Talbot
Judging by how commonly birth control is practiced in the United States, it ought to rank among the least controversial of subjects. In surveys, ninety-nine per cent of women of reproductive age report having used contraception in their lifetimes. Catholics avail themselves of it at about the same rate as other Americans. Evangelicals do, too. Given the fact that heterosexual Americans, like humans in general, tend to be fans of non-procreative sex, this is not so surprising. Nor is it new.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Margaret Talbot
They don’t make them like Pamela Harriman anymore. On balance, that’s probably a good thing.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
brnw.ch | Margaret Talbot
Sonia Purnell’s new biography, “Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue” (Viking), is a bit of a feminist reclamation project, bent on producing a more respectful portrait than those found in two earlier books, Christopher Ogden’s “Life of the Party: The Biography of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman” (1994) and Sally Bedell Smith’s “Reflected Glory: The Life of Pamela Churchill Harriman” (1996).
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Margaret Talbot
By the close of his second week as Donald Trump’s running mate, Senator J. D. Vance’s 2021 comments about the “childless cat ladies” allegedly leading the Democratic Party had entwined themselves around him, like hungry felines harking to a can opener. Vance, in an interview with Tucker Carlson during the 2022 Senate campaign, had dissed Democrats who hadn’t reproduced, citing Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as examples, on national television.
