Alicia Gutierrez-Romine,Ph.D.

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Historian and Author

Alicia Gutierrez-Romine is a historian and author. She specializes in California history with an emphasis on gender and sexuality, medicine, and race and ethnicity. She is an expert on the history of criminal abortion in the United States and is currently doing research on intersections of race, public health, and immigration in California and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.

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Interview with the Los Angeles Times

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  • Roe v. Wade 50 Years Later

    Alicia Gutierrez-Romine It’s perhaps no surprise that today’s anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision feels different. 50 years ago, the US Supreme Court affirmed a woman’s right to make her own reproductive decisions. However, on June 24, 2022, SCOTUS took those protections away with the Dobbs decision. Dobbs v. Jackson was a Mississippi case whose central issue was whether…