During Summer 2022, the US Supreme Court delivered many landmark decisions with near- and long-term implications for our lives. Among them, the Dobbs v. Jackson Whole Women’s Health Organization ruling received significant attention and continues to do so. In response to the ruling, Indiana lawmakers convened in a special summer session to outlaw abortion with very few exceptions. That statute, which was the first abortion ban passed and signed into law following Dobbs, took effect on September 15th though is enjoined as a federal court decides whether it violates the Indiana State Constitution.

Soon after the US Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in its June 24, 2022 Dobb's decision, a group of anthropologists of abortion collaborated on a response. These online essays are featured in Cultural Anthropology's "Hot Spots" series. I participated in the editing, co-authoring the Introduction, and contributed an original essay to the series on "The ART of Antiabortion Activism." Read the entire collection here, and share widely!