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When Roe Fell

How Barriers, Inequities, and Systemic Failures of Justice in Abortion Became Visible

Edited by Katrina Kimport

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ISBN:: 9781978841925
Published:: Nov 11, 2025

Release Date:: 11th November 2025
Publisher:: Rutgers University Press
Imprint:: Rutgers University Press
Series:: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Pages:: 250

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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.

"When Roe Fell is a superb collection of pieces by leading scholars of abortion. The book makes a powerful argument that simply restoring Roe v. Wade would be an insufficient response to meeting the challenge of establishing true reproductive freedom in the United States."
- Carole Joffe

"Smartly conceptualized, engaging, and insightful, When Roe Fell reveals the problems presented by Roe, the possibilities for exploitation leveraged by Dobbs, and the potential for a better foundation in the future if we pay attention to the lessons learned."
- Krystale E. Littlejohn

Introduction: What Losing Constitutional Protection Did and Didn’t Change About Abortion in the United States
Katrina Kimport

PART I: What the Fall of Roe Revealed about People Who Have Abortions
1 Contraception Is Not Enough
Diana Greene Foster
2 What Dobbs Revealed About the Everyday Morality of Abortion
Whitney Arey and Klaira Lerma
3 Abortion Restrictions: How Much Has Actually Changed
Lindsay Ruhr
4 Counting Was All We Ever Had: Measuring Change in Abortion Care After Dobbs
Jenny O’Donnell
5 Toward a Unified Conceptualization of Abortion Access
Jane W. Seymour and Jenny Higgins

PART II: What the Fall of Roe Revealed About Abortion Provision
6 Shift Work: Abortion Care in an Ever-Changing Landscape
Kelly Marie Ward and Barbara A. Alvarez
7 The Great Fallacy that American Catholic Hospitals Practice Medicine Without Abortion
Lori Freedman
8 Dobbs Reinvigorated the Potential of Mifepristone to “Change Everything”
Tracy A. Weitz
9 “We're Living in a Really Alternative Universe Right Now”: The Limits of Physicians’ Cultural Authority Pre-Dobbs and What That Means for a Post-Dobbs World
Danielle Bessett, B. Jessie Hill, Meredith J. Pensak, and Michelle L. McGowan
10 Physician Workforce Sensitivity and Reactions to Abortion Bans
Alexandra Woodcock and Jessica Sanders

PART III: What the Fall of Roe Revealed About Advocacy for and Against Abortion
11 Know Your Enemy: The Ethical Failings of the “Expose Fake Clinics” Campaign Against Anti-Abortion, Crisis Pregnancy Centers
Sara Mattheisen
12 “This Right Here is a Baby:” White Evangelical Women in the Pro-Life Movement
Micki Burdick
13 Evolving, Innovating, Enduring: Behind the Scenes on Abortion Funds Continuing through a Post-Dobbs Landscape
Ophra Leyser-Whalen and Erin R. Johnson

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