How it Works
1. Preorder UNDUE BURDEN by Shefali Luthra and screenshot your receipt
2. Click "Submit Reciept" below to receive 2 postcards designed by @LiberalJane
3. On May 21st, you'll receive your book and postcards (shipped separately).
BONUS: If you're moved by the stories in UNDUE BURDEN, use a postcard to write your representatives asking them to product reproductive healthcare and abortion access in your state.
[US Residents, 18+. Ends May 20, 2024. See terms here]
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Undue Burden
Shefali Luthra
An urgent investigation into the experience of seeking an abortion after the fall of Roe v. Wade, and the life-threatening consequences of being denied reproductive freedom.
On June 24, 2022, Roe v. Wade was overturned, and the impact was immediate: by 2024, abortion was virtually unavailable or significantly restricted in 21 states. In Undue Burden, reporter Shefali Luthra traces the unforgettable stories of patients faced with one of the most personal decisions of their lives.
Outside of Houston, there’s a 16-year-old girl who becomes pregnant well before she intends to. A 21-year-old mother barely making ends meet has to travel hundreds of miles in secret for medical treatment in another state. A 42-year-old woman with a life-threatening condition wants nothing more than to safely carry her pregnancy to term, but her home state’s abortion ban fails to provide her with the options she needs to make an informed decision. And a 19-year-old trans man struggles to access care in Florida as abortion bans radiate across the American South.
Before Dobbs, it was a common misconception that abortion restrictions affected only people in certain states but left one's own life untouched. Since the fall of Roe, a domino effect has cascaded across the entire country. As the landscape of abortion rights continues to shift, the experiences of these patients—who crossed state lines to seek life-saving care, who risked everything in pursuit of their own bodily autonomy, and who were unable to plan their reproductive future in the way they deserved—illustrate how fragile the system is, and how devastating the consequences can be.
A revelatory portrait of inequality in America, Undue Burden examines abortion not as a footnote or a political pawn, but as a basic human right, something worthy of our collective attention and with immense power to transform our lives, families, and futures.
Preorder UNDUE BURDEN by Shefali Luthra to receive 2 postcards: one to keep, one to send to your representatives to campaign for reproductive rights
Postcard art by @LiberalJane is inspired by the barriers to accessing reproductive healthcare across the US
Praise for UNDUE BURDEN
“An absolute must-read—tell your friends; buy it for your family; sit with it on your own. This is storytelling we need.”
—Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of Good and Mad and All the Single Ladies
“As an indictment of our societal failure to protect the lives and liberty of those with uteruses, Undue Burden does the heavy lifting of research so that even the most apolitical reader can understand the risks to us all.”
—Mikki Kendall, New York Times bestselling author of Hood Feminism
“Undue Burden reframes the battle over abortion to a national human rights crisis that threatens everyone’s welfare and freedom instead of a niche cultural issue... Undue Burden is a compelling, urgent call for reproductive justice.”
—Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body
“The history told within these pages is sweeping, the characters moving, and the message urgent. This is a book that meets our moment, painting a portrait that vividly underscores the stakes of our times.”
—Wesley Lowery, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of American Whitelash
“Undue Burden reveals the deeply human and devastating reality of the post-Roe world—it is the urgent reminder we all need that abortion is a human right.”
—Anne Helen Petersen, author of Out of Office and Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud
“Shefali Luthra has told the story of post-Roe America in the way it needs to be told—with a compelling, unflinching and deeply human look at the lives it has turned upside down. This gripping portrait is a must-read for anybody who wants to understand how much reproductive rights matter—and what happens to everyday Americans when those rights go away.”
—Jonathan Cohn, author of Sick and The Ten Year War
