Reproductive Rights, Abortion, and the State of Texas

The following recommended reading list provides deep analysis and historical insight regarding the Texas abortion law ruling (and the ongoing challenges to Roe v. Wade) that has gone into effect as of September 1, 2021.

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Abortion after Roe
By Johanna Schoen

“Schoen fills an important gap in historical scholarship that until now has focused on the pre-Roe era. . . . Skillfully incorporates the legal, political, and social history of abortion care in the United States since the 1970s.”—Journal of the History of Medicine

White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America
By Anthea Butler

“Show[s] how evangelicals’ contemporary embrace of right-wing politics is rooted in its centuries-long problem with race. This scathing takedown of evangelicalism’s ‘racism problem’ will challenge evangelicals to confront and reject racism within church communities.”—Publishers Weekly

Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era
By Max Krochmal

“It would be hard to find a more timely book about Texas political history than this dive into the coalition-building that brought together African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Anglo progressives and labor activists.”—Austin American-Statesman

Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe
By Marc Stein

“Offers a sophisticated understanding of the narrow outlook of the Court on issues of sexual rights. . . . An important contribution to the history of law, sexuality, immigration, and citizenship. . . . In addition to his brilliant interpretation of these cases, Stein also presents a beautiful discussion of his approach and methodology as well as a remarkable transparency in his use of potentially difficult sources.”—H-Net Reviews

The Abortion Rights Controversy in America: A Legal Reader
Edited by N. E. H. Hull, Williamjames Hoffer, and Peter Charles Hoffer

“A rich collection that will be well received by legal historians, professors who teach in the area of women and law, and undergraduate students and general readers who are interested in the history of abortion rights.”—Law and Politics Book Review

The Supreme Court and Legal Change: Abortion and the Death Penalty
By Lee Epstein and Joseph F. Kobylka

“Provides a rich collection that will be well received by legal historians, professors who teach in the area of women and law, and undergraduate students and general readers who are interested in the history of abortion rights.”—Law and Politics Book Review

“Absorbing and well-written . . . encourages social scientists who are interested in the legal process to construct their own examinations of legal change beyond the authors’ focus on the Supreme Court and into other contentious areas beyond their comparative case studies of abortion and capital punishment. . . . Epstein and Kobylka provide an equally perceptive treatment of Roe and its progeny.”—Legal Studies Forum