Undue Burden

“Insisting that the stories of human suffering cannot be sidelined as some niche politicized concern, Shefali Luthra places the people whose lives, bodies, families and ability to provide care have been wholly remade by Dobbs at the center of this urgent volume. 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

“Moving and deeply informative in highlighting the ways in which access to abortion is a basic human right, Undue Burden focuses on the consequences of limiting access to reproductive justice. The fall of Roe is a public health crisis with an impact we are still struggling to grasp. Shefali Luthra humanizes those burdened by the changes in the law while making excellent points about the shortsightedness of lawmakers pandering to the mob that wants control instead of serving their constituents who actually need access to reproductive care. As an indictment of our societal failure to protect the lives and liberty of those with a uterus, 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 from a niche cultural issue to a national human rights crisis that threatens everyone’s welfare and freedom. By telling the gripping stories of pregnant people desperately seeking abortions across the country and the advocates who courageously fight for expanded access to care, Shefali Luthra makes plain Dobbs’s devastating repercussions for our health, autonomy, and equality—and highlights the potential for change. Undue Burden is a compelling, urgent call for reproductive justice.”

—Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body

“For decades, access to abortion has been our nation’s most vigorously attacked human right—a battle that Shefali Luthra has chroncled with a rigor and empathy matched by few others. In the pages of Undue Burden, Luthra explores the war on abortion rights through the stories of the real people whose rights are threatened and lives forever altered by the powerful political movement that has spent decades working to overturn the right to terminate a pregnancy. 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 Peterson, 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

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