Sybil Shainwald | Women's Health Advocate

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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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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Unmasking the Misunderstanding of Abortion History

2019-08-312025-02-27

34 mins read

COMMON LAW, THE EARLY STATUTES, AND THE EMBERS OF REFORM During the late seventeenth, the whole of the eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries, English and American women were totally free…

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Women’s Reproductive Rights After Kavanaugh

2018-10-252025-02-27

11 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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Reproductive Rights in the Era of Trump

2018-07-152025-02-27

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

2017-04-162025-02-27

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

2016-11-282025-02-27

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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Why Can’t Women Control Their Own Destinies?

2015-05-312025-02-28

38 mins read

CLE Discussion by NYCLA’s Women in Law Committee & Young Lawyers Section Sybil Shainwald, Esq. on May 1, 2015 Introduction and History Since the 2010 mid-term elections the states have…

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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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