The Politics of Abortion 50 Years after Roe

"This special issue aims to bring abortion research into a more generalist space, challenging what the authors term 'the abortion research paradox,' wherein abortion research is largely absent from prominent disciplinary social science journals but flourishes in interdisciplinary and specialized journals," write the editors to this special issue in their introduction. The authors discuss misconceptions that likely contribute to abortion research siloization and the implications of this siloization for abortion research as well as social science knowledge more generally. They then call for continued and expanded research on abortion, offering three guiding practices for abortion scholars—both those new to the topic and those deeply familiar with it—in the hopes of building an ever-richer body of literature on abortion politics, policy, and law.

Contributors: Carrie N. Baker, Nichole M. Bauer, Danielle Bessett, Xiana Bueno, Beyza E. Buyuker, Saphronia Carson, Shannon K. Carter, Brandon L. Crawford, Danielle Czarnecki, Anna Gunderson, ?Hillary J. Gyuras, Orlaith Heymann, Jessie Hill, Carole Joffe, Kristen N. Jozkowski, Jennifer Karlin, Jeong Hyun Kim, Katrina Kimport, Rebecca Kreitzer, Anu Kumar, Elizabeth A. Lane, Kathryn J. LaRoche, Jennifer Hyunkyung Lee, Wen-Juo Lo, Michelle L. McGowan, Alison Norris, Meredith Pensak, Louise Marie Roth, Ronna C. Turner