Rabbit Holes (Longform Articles) Part 2

Great non-fiction, longform articles to send you down a rabbit hole and possibly learn something new!

1. "What Actually Happens When a Country Bans Abortion" by Amy Mackinnon for Foreign Policy

   1. Romania under the rule of Nicolae Ceausescu.

      
      

2. "The Labor of Bringing a Baby Into Appalachia" by Alecia Swasy for Slate

   1. Article on a doctor who doesn't offer birth control or abortions but is the only doctor in an area of high poverty and low safe-sex practices.

      
      

3. "The Abortion I Didn’t Have" by Merritt Tierce for The New York Times

   
   

4. "The Year After a Denied Abortion" by Stacy Kranitz, special to ProPublica, and Kavitha Surana

   1. For further reading on the subject of women's lives after denial, there's the book The Turnaway Study by Diana Greene Foster.

      
      

5. "Orphan Fever: The Evangelical Movement’s Adoption Obsession" by Kathryn Joyce for Mother Jones

   1. Gross mismanagement of private adoptions and abusive evangelical teachings had led to a lot of child abuse of Liberian adoptees in the USA. Joyce has also written the book The Child Catchers on this heartbreaking subject.

   2. See also this New Republic article on cultural differences in adoption in the Marshall Islands and USA and Reuters article on Americans use the Internet to abandon children adopted from overseas.

      
      

6. "Republican Sexual Predators, Abusers, and Enablers" by CajsaLiliehook for Daily Kos

   1. A list of republicans with allegations and criminal records in 2018.

      
      

7. “Why Republicans love comparing abortion to slavery” by Emily Crockett for Vox

   
   

8. "Should We 'Fix' Intersex Children?" by Charlotte Greenfield for The Atlantic