Wednesday 24 June 2026
Annalise DeVries /

Whose Privacy Rights Are They Anyway?

What the history of Roe v. Wade can teach us about privacy, technology, and the state of liberalism.
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There is a strain of anti-liberalism regarding women’s rights that goes from one end of the horseshoe to the other. Thirty years ago, it was post-modern scholars arguing that liberalism did not know how to adequately approach women’s womb-bearing bodies, and so the liberal political system ought to be dismantled.

Annalise DeVries is an associate professor of history at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, who focuses on the modern Middle East, nationalism, and women's political history.

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