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Protecting the reproductive rights of women for more than 40 years

Sybil Shainwald

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Fierce advocate for women's health.

Sybil Shainwald has crusaded for women's reproductive rights since the 1970's.

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A fierce advocate for women; a tireless champion of women's health outcomes; a legal legacy fighting for reproductive freedom.
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Abortion Articles Reproductive Rights

The Definitive History of Abortion in the U.S.

2022-07-122022-07-12
20 mins read
For the complete article see Reproductive Injustice in the New Millenium, and/or, William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law, Volume 20, Issue 1, Fall 2013 Until 1968, scholars…
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Reproductive Rights

The VFA Pioneer Histories Project

2019-10-162022-07-12
14 mins read
“A Lifetime of Championing Women’s Reproductive Rights.” Interviewed by Penny Stoil, VFA Board, March 2019. Videographer: Ron Myrvik https://youtu.be/Ni67vlb5oVM PS:  Sybil Shainwald — you’ve been quoted as saying that you…
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Abortion Reproductive Rights

Women’s Reproductive Rights After Kavanaugh

2018-10-252022-04-06
12 mins read
At the time of his confirmation hearing, now Justice Kavanaugh assured senators that Roe v. Wade[1]was “settled law,” as a precedent entitled to respect.[2]This was a self-evident “dodge.”[3]In fact, in…
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Abortion Articles Reproductive Rights

Reproductive Rights in the Era of Trump

2018-07-152018-07-15
34 mins read
A Look Back and a Peek Forward Sybil Shainwald, Esq. The Supreme Court’s decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, 136 S. Ct. 2292 (2016), decided in June of last…
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Women in Law: The Erosion of Reproductive Health Choices in the U.S. A Look Back and a Peek Forward

2017-04-162017-04-24
24 mins read
Introduction and History The Supreme Court’s decision last June in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, 136 S. Ct. 2292 (2016), was a significant victory for reproductive rights. That decision was…
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Articles Seminars

Sybil Shainwald’s Speech at the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C. on 11/7/16

2016-11-282018-07-17
38 mins read
Justice Sandra Day O’Conner tells this joke: Two men on a balloon expedition became lost in a storm. When the storm cleared, they found themselves floating above a one-land road…
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Reproductive Rights

Women in Law: The Erosion of Reproductive Health Choices in the U.S.

2015-05-312018-07-17
38 mins read
Why Can’t Women Control Their Own Destinies? CLE Discussion by NYCLA’s Women in Law Committee & Young Lawyers Section Sybil Shainwald, Esq. on May 1, 2015 Introduction and History Since…
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Bans on Dilation & Evacuation Abortions

2015-05-072015-05-22
2 mins read
Bans on “dilation & evacuation” (or D&E) abortions are the latest front in the states’ war against a woman’s right to have an abortion, which has been waged ever since…
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Pregnant, and No Civil Rights

2014-12-152015-05-22
5 mins read
A recent article in the New York Times exposed the horrific extent that states have gone to in an attempt to ban abortion by passing laws that criminalize pregnant women.…
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Notice of Public Hearing Re: State Single Payer Health Coverage

2014-12-102015-05-22
1 min read
There will be a public hearing to receive testimony concerning the New York Health bill to create single payer health coverage.  The New York Health bill would provide comprehensive, universal…
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