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This essay centers the legal and coalitional strategies of Black feminist Civil Rights attorney Florynce Kennedy in pre- Roe v. Wade  abortion rights advocacy. Examining the depositional records of the 1969 case  Abramowitz v. Lefkowitz  and its subsequent distillation into the 1971 book  Abortion Rap , we demonstrate how Kennedy’s rhetorical tactics enabled white women’s reproductive experiences to be intelligible—but centered—as expertise in the legal domain. Kennedy’s lines of questioning enabled feelings about unwanted pregnancies to become intelligible as expertise, challenging the authority of established experts. Kennedy impatiently leveraged her expert knowledge of the legal system to manage the state’s objections that threatened the well-being of witnesses and integrity of the case. While  Abortion Rap  appealed to the intersections of Black women’s reproductive concerns, it also hindered the possibility for coalitional trust to be built between legal experts and Black Power activists around abortion advocacy.

Florynce Kennedy’s Cultivation of Reproductive Expertise in Abramowicz v. Lefkowitz and Abortion Rap