In June 2022, the US Supreme Court's Dobbs v. The Jackson Women's Health Organization ended five decades of legal access to abortion in the country. Now, about half of the 50 US states severely restrict or ban abortion. These states have seen many deaths from preventable complications of pregnancy, for which abortion is usually the standard of care. Scholars in various fields study the history of abortion to understand past events and their legacy. In Back-Alley Abortion: A Rhetorical History, Emily Winderman analyzes the phrase back-alley abortion. The phrase refers to the bad old days when almost all abortions in the US were performed illegally.