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This week, we are looking at the topic of abortion. In class on tuesday, we watched a film. That was more about current abortion now. It was looking at abortion in states that had begun to legislate abortion restrictions. Today, we are going to go back in time a little bit. We will give historical context. We will do a historical overview of the topic of abortion. We will start nationally, then we are going to look at california specifically. Specifically on the topics of specialized abortion or abortion specialists and decriminalization. Then we will go back to the National Context to look at...

Now joining us on booktv is author robert cornrevere jr, the name of his book, the mind of the censor and the eye of the beholder. Well get into that in just a minute. But mr. Corn revere, i want to read this to you. The First Amendment of the constitution, Congress Shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press. True or false . Well, true in that that was the mandate that the framers of the constitution had in mind. The difficulty has been interpreting what those words mean over the interval of time between the founding of the country and today, and who has been interpretin...

History of reproductive rights and justice starting from the 19th century to the present. Its also something thats in some ways very hard to lecture about now because its i as as professor lawson said in one of the main historians of this stuff, and im also living through it with all of you. So its a strange time to be discussing this as■z history whn its also very much real life. So i think now often when we think of reproductive rights and we think of them in the context of criminalization and criminal laws, but thats a relatively recent phenomenon. So if you go back far enough and theres ...

So this is obviously more material than i can cover in an. So this is a snapshot of the history of reproductive rights and justice starting from the 19th century to the present. Its also something thats in some ways very hard to lecture about now because its i as as professor lawson said in one of the main historians of this stuff, and im also living through it with all of you. So its a strange time to be discussing this as history when its also very much real life. So i think now often when we think of reproductive rights and we think of them in the context of criminalization and criminal law...

History of reproductive rights and justice starting from the 19th century to the present. Its about now because its i as professor lawson said in one of the main historians of this stuff, and im also living through it with all of you. So its a strange time to be discussing this as history when its also very much real life. So i think now often when we think of reproductive rights and we think of them in the context of criminalization and criminal laws, but thats a relatively recent phenomenon. So if you go back far enough and theres a dispute about this that was reflected by the supreme in the...