Hi, I'm Shannon, the podcast producer here at C-SPAN, and this week on the Lectures and History Podcast, it's back to the classroom on the subject of the history of abortion.

University of California Davis law professor Mary Ziegler discusses the history of abortion and contraception laws in the United States.

Class starts right after this.

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Thanks so much everybody.

So this is obviously more material than I can cover in an hour.

So this is a snapshot of the history of reproductive rights and justice, starting from the

19th century to the present.

It's also something that's in some ways very hard to lecture about now because it's, I,

as Professor Lawson said,

and one of the main historians of this stuff, and I'm also living through it with all of you.

So it's a strange time to be discussing this as history when it's also very much real life.

So I think now, often when we think of reproductive rights and justice, we think of them in the

context of criminalization and criminal laws, but that's a relatively recent phenomenon. So if you go back far enough, and there's

a dispute about this that was reflected in the Supreme Court's decision in 2022 in Dobbs v.

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