J. Shoshanna Ehrlich, Alesha E. Doan

Abortion Regret (eBook, PDF)

The New Attack on Reproductive Freedom

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

An indispensable resource for students, scholars, and activists concerned about current attacks on abortion rights, this book offers an unmatched account of the emergence, consolidation, and consequences of the antiabortion movement's paternalistic abortion regret narrative. Abortion Regret explores the emergence and consolidation of the antiabortion movement's paternalistic efforts to "protect" women from abortion regret. It begins by examining the 19th-century physician's campaign to criminalize abortion and traces the contours of the women-protective abortion regret narrative through to the 21st century. Based on interviews, textual analysis of primary sources, and a content analysis of state antiabortion policy from 2010-2015, the authors argue that the contemporary rise of the abortion regret narrative has armed the antiabortion movement with a unifying and compelling strategy to oppose abortion through a woman-centered approach. In addition to covering the historical origins of our nation's criminal abortion laws, the book covers topics that include the origins and growth of crisis pregnancy centers, including recent efforts provide perinatal hospice services; an analysis of leading Supreme Court decisions on abortion; the emergence of the "pro-woman/pro-life" antiabortion platform, including its deeply religious roots; the infiltration of this position into the political and legal spheres in the guise of a secular rationale for limiting access to abortion; and an evidence-based rejoinder to the position that abortion harms women.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781440839856
• Artikelnr.: 68184025

Autorenporträt

J. Shoshanna Ehrlich is Associate Professor on the Legal Education Faculty of the University of Massachusetts-Boston College of Public and Community Service. As Clinical Legal Education Director, she produced a guidebook for young women entitled The Teen Girls' Legal Rights Project (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments ONE "Making Their Bodies Dens of Murder": The
Physicians' 19th-Century Campaign to Criminalize Abortion TWO The Evolving
Legal Status of Abortion THREE The Crisis Pregnancy Centers and the Roots
of the Contemporary Abortion Regret Narrative FOUR Beyond the Crisis
Pregnancy Centers: Regret Moves from the Margins to the Center of the
Antiabortion Movement FIVE Protecting Women for Their Own Good: The
Reemergence of Legal Paternalism Methods Appendix Notes Bibliography Index