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Government

Mar. 31, 2017

Politics, law and women's health

The Trump administration's agenda could make a bad situation worse and place women's reproductive autonomy at increased risk. By Deborah L. Rhode

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Deborah L. Rhode is Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law at Stanford Law School

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By Deborah L. Rhode

Women's efforts to control their fertility date back almost 4,000 years. The irony of our current circumstances is that even as technology has put that control within reach, politics and law stand in the way. Conservatives' reproductive rights agenda would make a bad situation worse and place women's reproductive autonomy at increased risk.

The public got a glimpse of that agenda in the recently tabled American Health Car...

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