| By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman | Amid news stories of women who have died as a result of state-level abortion bans, some advocates have evoked the refrain that "abortion is health care." That may be the case, but Christen Hammock Jones argues for Made by History that many of the feminists working toward abortion rights back in the 1960s and 1970s thought of it as much more than that. These activists saw abortion rights as part of bodily autonomy, and of a woman's right to control her own destiny—something that, in practice, sometimes required sidestepping medical authority. This history points to a vision of reproductive freedom that goes far beyond the realm of medical clinics. | |
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| | | |  | The Centuries of History Behind a Key Trump Strategy | The 18th and 19th century origins of the appeal to white victimhood. |
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|  | North Carolina Exposes the Truth About Swing States | Tight electoral margins might be thought to foster centrism. In reality, partisan power grabs are incentivized. |
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|  | How Recent Legislation Threatens Entertainment in Cuba | Cubans access global entertainment through an offline system of media distribution called the"paquete." New rules could threaten that. |
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|  | The True Story Behind September 5 | The new movie stars John Magaro as an ABC Sports producer whose team broadcast the Munich massacre for millions around the world during the 1972 Olympics. |
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| | This week in 1954: Ernest Hemingway |  | The Dec. 13, 1954, cover of TIME |
| Boris Artzybasheff |
| "When his plane crashed on safari in Africa last winter..he walked out of the jungle carrying a bunch of bananas and a bottle of gin, and was quoted, possibly even correctly, as saying: 'My luck, she is running very good.' For Ernest Hemingway, when he is writing, every day begins in that private world. As early as 5:30 in the morning, before any but some gabby bantams, a few insomniac cats and a cantankerous bird called 'The Bitchy Owl' are awake, he goes to work in the big main bedroom of his villa. He writes standing up at the mantelpiece, using pencil for narrative and description, a typewriter for dialogue 'in order to keep up.'" |
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| | This week in 1999: John McCain |  | The Dec. 13, 1999, cover of TIME |
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| "The question is whether, having come so far, he is now a prisoner all over again, this time of his biography. He has traded on it for so long you wonder whether he can break away from it and make the story not about him but about us; whether, having caught his audience, brightened the lights, earned his newsmagazine cover, he can stand up and tell us where he wants to go and what he wants to do. That way, voters might get to judge whether the events that changed his life would help him change ours. Or whether, as a longtime observer says, his bio is all he has." |
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| This week in 2001: George Harrison |  | The Dec. 10, 2001, cover of TIME |
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| "What Harrison possessed was something more unexpected in a rock star: the air of a man in search of mature understandings. He may have been the youngest Beatle, but from early on he struggled toward the melancholy wisdom of later life. There was gravity even in his love songs. The stately tempos in Something, the plangent guitar in I Need You are not the musical indicators of a lighthearted romantic. So when the Beatles disintegrated in 1970 and the air was full of moist-eyed tributes, it was not surprising that Harrison replied with the resolute detachment he had learned from Eastern religion. 'All things must pass,' he sang. 'All things must pass away.'" |
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