Articles & essays
The Midwife Purge, 1900–1930
Between 1900 and 1930, state law and the new American medical establishment drove Black, immigrant, and rural midwives out of practice. The Sheppard-Towner Act (1921) funded the 'education' that displaced them. The workforce collapse in maternal care that defines 2026 begins here.
We Can Read Too
An engineer, then scientist, then physician explains why a medical-intelligence project reaches back a hundred and fifty years. History resolves what the legal, medical and cultural lenses cannot: the present is a pattern, not an accident.
Comstock, 1873
The federal anti-vice law of 1873 made it a felony to mail contraceptives or 'obscene' medical information. Margaret Sanger was arrested under it. It is still on the books. It is being weaponized to ban mifepristone by mail without a vote of Congress.
Tricare for All: We Already Have the Answer
The United States spends more on healthcare than any nation on earth and gets the worst outcomes among wealthy nations. That is not a mystery requiring a task force — it is a program any competent operator would shut down on sight. And the universal system America already built proves the answer exists.
Where The Sepsis Wards Came Back
What the laws and rulings actually do to bodies — and where the sepsis wards came back. The medical track of Crisis to Care.
What Pro-Life Forgot
On the natural-law tradition the religious right buried, and what it would mean to bring it back.
About The Dossier
The Dossier is where In Her Name does its deepest work. Long-form investigative pieces that connect policy decisions to power structures to the bodies caught in between. These are the stories that take months to report and years to matter. Bodies. Borders. Power.
Part of the In Her Name journal at Labora Collective.
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