Books

Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts

"A remarkable, fresh analysis of a difficult and terrible public health issue. I could not put the book down."
-Donna E. Shalala, former Secretary of Health and Human Services

Baby Markets: Money and the New Politics of Creating Families

"Michele Goodwin has done a masterful job of weaving together a wide range of contrasting points of view in law, policy, economics, and philosophy on the timely topic of Baby Markets in our contemporary post-Brave New World society. " 
- Diane L. Redleaf, former Executive Director, Family Defense Center

​Policing The Womb
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​After you finish reading Policing the Womb and have quelled your anger, you will have no choice but to join one of the many local and national efforts to fight for women’s full constitutional and fundamental human rights.
-Katherine Spillar, Executive Director, Feminist Majority Foundation

Opinion Editorials

Addressing Racism's Toll: My Minneapolis Experience

MICHELE GOODWIN
Living as a Black woman in Minneapolis and dealing with constant racist episodes, “I often felt as if I were in a strange sociological experiment,” writes Michele Goodwin. “But this needn’t have been my family’s story. So how do we fix this?”

The Urgency for Reproductive Freedom: From Slavery to the New Jane Crow

MICHELE GOODWIN
Soon the Supreme Court will issue a ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case that involves a Mississippi abortion ban at 15 weeks of pregnancy. If the Supreme Court allows Mississippi’s ban to go into effect, it will be endorsing Mississippi’s solicitation to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey—the two cases underpinning the constitutional right to abortion in the U.S.

Grave Threats To Voting Rights In The Wisconsin Election

MICHELE GOODWIN
​The path for Wisconsin voters was fraught by voter suppression, conservative organizations essentially lobbying the Wisconsin Supreme Court by letter (rather than the typical filing of briefs), and the failure of the United States Supreme Court to uphold civil liberties in a time of health crisis.
Achieving equality for women is fundamental to a healthy democracy.
Michele Bratcher Goodwin,
ASPEN IDEAS FESTIVAL

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