Dobbs Didn’t End Abortion. It Ignited a Movement.

After spending more than four decades studying abortion in American social, medical, and political culture, Carole Joffe was fully prepared for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v.

Wade in 2022.

“Dobbs itself wasn’t that scary to me,” she says.

“It was upsetting and politically outrageous, but because of our work, we knew abortion wasn’t […] ...