Institute Insider

This summer, the Women's Policy Journal of Harvard at the Kennedy School of Government will publish Lura Barber's paper, "Permission to Vote 'No': Framing the Abortion Debate in South Dakota." Lura is a first-year MPP student and a research assistant with the Center on Women and Public Policy. The article originally was developed as a case study in Sally Kenney's Feminist Organizations class in Fall 2008. In it, Lura discusses the way that abortion was framed by pro-life and pro-choice groups leading up to, and in response to, a 2008 ballot measure banning abortion in South Dakota. Part of her research for the study involved traveling to Sioux Falls the weekend prior to Election Day to volunteer with a group opposing the ban; the trip was funded by a Silianoff Grant. She also interviewed the campaign's state field director and leaders from NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood.

Lura is thrilled to publish a paper as a first-year student and thanks the Center on Women and Public Policy for helping to make it happen.