In this episode, Lindsay talks with Dr. Amanda Hendrix-Komoto about the history of abortions in Mormonism.
Links mentioned in this episode:
- R. Lanier Britsch, Unto the Islands of the Sea: A History of the Latter-day Saints in the Pacific
- Hokulani Aikau, A Chosen People, A Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai‘i
- Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific
- Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, “The Other Crime: Abortion and Contraception in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Utah” in Dialogue
- Jennifer Holland, Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement
- Joshua Prager, The Family Roe
- Leslie Reagan, Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America
- Linda Gordon, The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America
- Leslie Reagan, When Abortion was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and the Law in United States, 1867 – 1973
- Nicholas Syrett, The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion Illegal
- “Use of herbal medicines during pregnancy, parturition and six weeks postpartum by women in Utah”. Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library.
- Herbal fertility treatments used in North America from colonial times to 1900, and their potential for improving the success rate of assisted reproductive technology
- Herbs and roots to avoid during pregnancy
- Cherokee introduced herbs like Golden Seal and Blue Cohash as contraceptives
- Pioneering physicians in Utah, 1847-1900 by Christine Croft Waters
- Ways to Support Reproductive Rights :
- Support an abortion fund in your area. To find one, visit: https://abortionfunds.org/funds/
- Join the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice: https://rcrc.org/
- Read Jessica Valenti’s Abortion Everyday Substack: https://jessica.substack.com/
- Donate to Planned Parenthood’s Action Fund: https://www.weareplannedparenthoodaction.org/onlineactions/6iOI0_HnUUmPu_6_SRgayg2?sourceid=1015196&ms=4NIAU23XA&utm_campaign=4NIAU23XA_0000000107_0E1NAC&utm_source=Google&utm_medium=&gclid=Cj0KCQjw4bipBhCyARIsAFsieCzeQ9zGslyoWnKjffy6qvQoW9KTixGY5BrfpXxPIiZRqVrfi9cNeKcaAoAOEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
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