The Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
GSWS/FQT Postdoctoral Fellow Alicia Meyer published a piece on Criminalizing Pregnancy before Dobbs: The Case of Elizabeth Brian at Bridewell Hospital. She writes: "As the case of Elizabeth Brian and other in the Bridewell Court Books prove, English common law and the American laws it influenced have a vested history in attempting to control pregnant people by controlling the terms of pregnancy itself." Read the full piece at the link above.