While imprisoned for providing abortion health services in the mid-20th-century California, Laura Miner wrote, "Each experience leaves its imprint, some imprints are more like scars. But I can still hold my head up and I respect myself because my conscience is clear. I have helped humanity—someday it will be legal for a doctor to help a woman who will then have a right to decide for herself how many children she shall have, and when."

"'Someday it will be legal...': Historical Relevance Post-Dobbs" features Prof. Alicia Gutierrez-Romine in conversation with ICW Associate Director Elizabeth Logan. Focusing on the role of historical argument in a Post-Dobbs' landscape, the discussion will start with Gutierrez-Romine's book From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969 and include her post-Dobbs work to help secure a posthumous pardon for Miner