I taught a class on reproductive bodies at Princeton this semester, a course that explored ideas about conception and attempts to regulate who could provide care during labor from antiquity to the Enlightenment.

A thread on historical precedents and legal opinions: 1/16 My students were brilliant, but not a single person who identified as male took the course. Not really surprising, but I’m reminded again after reading Alito’s egregiously ahistorical (and abhorrent) opinion that while many women want to learn this history, men *need* to. 2/16