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Victoria Hill is among at least twenty-six children conceived when a former Yale fertility doctor inseminated unknowing patients with his own sperm—an injustice difficult to prosecute and impossible to process, particularly after his recent death.
By Mia Rose Kohn
A New Haven activist, Yale doctor, and Yale lawyer won Americans the right to oral contraceptives as apart of a liberating—and eugenic—movement. Today, patients and doctors still confront the tension between autonomy and coercion.
For decades, Margaret Holloway performed Shakespeare on the corner of York Street in exchange for money. Behind the mythos of "The Shakespeare Lady" was a budding actress failed by a series of places and people—including at the Yale School of Drama.