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Forum: Rhetorics of reproductive justice and injustice in the aftermath of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

The Dobbs Leak and Reproductive Justice

 

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1 Josh Gerstein and Alexander Ward, “Supreme Court has Voted to Overturn Abortion Rights, Draft Opinion Shows,” Politico, May 2, 2022, https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473.

2 “The Death of ‘Roe’ is Giving Us a Lot of Feelings,” Rewire News Group, December 10, 2021, https://rewirenewsgroup.com/article/2021/12/10/the-death-of-roe-is-giving-us-a-lot-of-feelings/.

3 The 1972/1973 Roe v. Wade leaks differ from the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson leak in several respects. Whereas the Dobbs leak was comprised of a draft decision, the 1972 Roe leak concerned internal deliberations. The timing of the 1973 Roe leak also differed from Dobbs because it occurred “just hours before” the court’s own announcement of their decision. The Dobbs leak preceded the decision by almost two months. American attitudes toward the legitimacy of leaking as a gesture of transparency were dramatically different at the time of the Roe leaks, given the volume of other leaks in preceding years (e.g., the COINTELPRO leak of March 8, 1971; the Pentagon Papers of June 13, 1971). Rachel Treisman, “The Original Roe v. Wade Ruling was Leaked, Too,” NPR, May 3, 2022, https://www.npr.org/2022/05/03/1096097236/roe-wade-original-ruling-leak.

4 Elizabeth Grosz, Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994).

5 Daniela Agostinho and Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, “If Truth Was a Woman: Leaky Infrastructures and the Gender Politics of Truth-Telling,” Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization 19, no. 4 (2019): 745-775.

6 Tom Goldstein, “How the Leak Might Have Happened,” SCOTUSblog, May 5, 2022, https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/05/how-the-leak-might-have-happened/.

7 Joan Biskupic, “The Inside Story of How John Roberts Failed to Save Abortion Rights,” CNN, July 26, 2022, https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/politics/supreme-court-john-roberts-abortion-dobbs/index.html.

8 Danielle Wallace, “Cruz Blames Supreme Court Abortion Leak on Democratic Party’s ‘Vicious Partisan Politicking’,” FoxNews, May 3, 2022, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senator-ted-cruz-supreme-court-abortion-leak-democrat-vicious-partisan-politicking.

9 V. Jo Hsu, “The ‘War on the Word ‘Women’’ is a Dangerous Distraction,” TransGriot, July 5, 2022, https://transgriot.com/recent-news/the-war-on-the-word-women-is-a-dangerous-distraction/.

10 Kimberlee Kruesi (@kkruesi), “New AP style guidance alert," Twitter, May 4, 2022,1:27 p.m., https://twitter.com/kkruesi/status/1521934671927562240.

11 Gabriel Hays, “AP Style Guide Adds Phrase ‘Pregnant People’ to the Mockery of Twitter,” FoxNews, May 6, 2022, https://www.foxnews.com/media/ap-style-guide-adds-phrase-pregnant-people-mockery-twitter.

12 Megan McArdle, “Can the Women’s Movement be as Effective without the Word ‘Women’?,” The Washington Post, May 5, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/05/pregnant-people-womens-rights-roe/.

13 Sydney Bauer, “The New Anti-Trans Culture War Hiding in Plain Sight,” The New Republic, February 11, 2020, https://newrepublic.com/article/156539/new-anti-trans-culture-war-hiding-plain-sight.

14 Nicole Silverio, “Left-Wingers Refer To Women as ‘Pregnant People’ In Response to Roe Overturn,” Daily Caller, June 24, 2022, https://dailycaller.com/2022/06/24/left-wingers-refer-women-pregnant-people-roe-v-wade/; Pamela Paul, “The Far Right and Far Left Agree on One Thing: Women Don’t Count,’ The New York Times, July 3, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/03/opinion/the-far-right-and-far-left-agree-on-one-thing-women-dont-count.html; Jennifer Rubin, “Where Female Activists Have Come Since Dobbs – and What Awaits,” The Washington Post, August 8, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/08/dobbs-women-organizing-abortion-fight/.

15 Loretta J. Ross, “Reproductive Justice as Intersectional Feminist Activism,” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society 19, no.3 (2017): 286-314, https://doi.org/10.1080/10999949.2017.1389634; Kimberly C. Harper, The Ethos of Black Motherhood: Only White Women Get Pregnant (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2020).

16 Loretta J. Ross, “African-American Women and Abortion: 1800-1970,” in Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women, eds. Stanlie M. James and Abena P.A. Busia (London: Routledge, 1993), 141-159; Kimala Price, “What Is Reproductive Justice? How Women of Color Activists Are Redefining the Pro-Choice Paradigm,” Meridians 10, no. 2 (2010): 42–65.

17 Jennifer Nelson, Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2003), 23.

18 Kai M. Green and Marquis Bey, “Where Black Feminist Thought and Trans* Feminism Meet: A Conversation,” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society 19, no.4 (2017): 438-454, https://doi.org/10.1080/10999949.2018.1434365.

19 Green and Bey, “Where Black Feminist,” 439, 441; Sojourner Truth, “Address at the Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio,” May 29, 1851, https://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/truth-address-at-the-womans-rights-convention-speech-text/; Marius Robinson, “Address at The Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio,” Anti-Slavery Bugle, June 21, 1851, 6, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83035487/1851-06-21/ed-1/seq-4/; Combahee River Collective, “The Combahee River Collective Statement,” in How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, ed. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2017), 15–27.

20 Green and Bey, “Where Black Feminist,” 438.

21 Mary Miller claimed Dobbs was a “victory for white life:” Jennifer Hassan, “GOP Lawmaker Calls Roe Ruling ‘Victory for White Life’ as Trump Rally Cheers,” The Washington Post, June 26, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/26/mary-miller-white-life-trump-rally/.

22 Lisa M. Corrigan, “So, You've Heard of the Duggars? Bodily Autonomy, Religious Exemption, and the American South.” QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 3, no. 1 (2016): 138–47, https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.3.1.0138.

23 Karma R. Chávez, Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2013).

24 Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz and Shui-Yin Sharon Yam, “Queer(ing) Reproductive Justice,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication (November 29, 2021), https://oxfordre.com/communication/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228613-e-1195.

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