Author: Michele Goodwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110703017X
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
This book tells the real-life horror story of states' abusing laws and infringing on rights to police women and their pregnancies.
Policing the Womb
Author: Michele Goodwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110703017X
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
This book tells the real-life horror story of states' abusing laws and infringing on rights to police women and their pregnancies.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110703017X
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
This book tells the real-life horror story of states' abusing laws and infringing on rights to police women and their pregnancies.
When Abortion Was a Crime
Author: Leslie J. Reagan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520387422
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
The definitive history of abortion in the United States, with a new preface that equips readers for what’s to come. When Abortion Was a Crime is the must-read book on abortion history. Originally published ahead of the thirtieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this award-winning study was the first to examine the entire period during which abortion was illegal in the United States, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and ending with that monumental case in 1973. When Abortion Was a Crime is filled with intimate stories and nuanced analysis, demonstrating how abortion was criminalized and policed—and how millions of women sought abortions regardless of the law. With this edition, Leslie J. Reagan provides a new preface that addresses the dangerous and ongoing threats to abortion access across the country, and the precarity of our current moment. While abortions have typically been portrayed as grim "back alley" operations, this deeply researched history confirms that many abortion providers—including physicians—practiced openly and safely, despite prohibitions by the state and the American Medical Association. Women could find cooperative and reliable practitioners; but prosecution, public humiliation, loss of privacy, and inferior medical care were a constant threat. Reagan's analysis of previously untapped sources, including inquest records and trial transcripts, shows the fragility of patient rights and raises provocative questions about the relationship between medicine and law. With the right to abortion increasingly under attack, this book remains the definitive history of abortion in the United States, offering vital lessons for every American concerned with health care, civil liberties, and personal and sexual freedom.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520387422
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
The definitive history of abortion in the United States, with a new preface that equips readers for what’s to come. When Abortion Was a Crime is the must-read book on abortion history. Originally published ahead of the thirtieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this award-winning study was the first to examine the entire period during which abortion was illegal in the United States, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and ending with that monumental case in 1973. When Abortion Was a Crime is filled with intimate stories and nuanced analysis, demonstrating how abortion was criminalized and policed—and how millions of women sought abortions regardless of the law. With this edition, Leslie J. Reagan provides a new preface that addresses the dangerous and ongoing threats to abortion access across the country, and the precarity of our current moment. While abortions have typically been portrayed as grim "back alley" operations, this deeply researched history confirms that many abortion providers—including physicians—practiced openly and safely, despite prohibitions by the state and the American Medical Association. Women could find cooperative and reliable practitioners; but prosecution, public humiliation, loss of privacy, and inferior medical care were a constant threat. Reagan's analysis of previously untapped sources, including inquest records and trial transcripts, shows the fragility of patient rights and raises provocative questions about the relationship between medicine and law. With the right to abortion increasingly under attack, this book remains the definitive history of abortion in the United States, offering vital lessons for every American concerned with health care, civil liberties, and personal and sexual freedom.
Crimes Against the Foetus
Author: Law Reform Commission of Canada
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Shortcomings. Reshaping present law. Reform. Summary of
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Shortcomings. Reshaping present law. Reform. Summary of
Beyond Roe
Author: David Boonin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190904852
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Most arguments for or against abortion focus on one question: is the fetus a person? In this provocative and important book, David Boonin defends the claim that even if the fetus is a person with the same right to life you and I have, abortion should still be legal, and most current restrictions on abortion should be abolished. Beyond Roe points to a key legal precedent: McFall v. Shimp. In 1978, an ailing Robert McFall sued his cousin, David Shimp, asking the court to order Shimp to provide McFall with the bone marrow he needed. The court ruled in Shimp's favor and McFall soon died. Boonin extracts a compelling lesson from the case of McFall v. Shimp--that having a right to life does not give a person the right to use another person's body even if they need to use that person's body to go on living-and he uses this principle to support his claim that abortion should be legal and far less restricted than it currently is, regardless of whether the fetus is a person. By taking the analysis of the right to life that Judith Jarvis Thomson pioneered in a moral context and applying it in a legal context in this novel way, Boonin offers a fresh perspective that is grounded in assumptions that should be accepted by both sides of the abortion debate. Written in a lively, conversational style, and offering a case study of the value of reason in analyzing complex social issues, Beyond Roe will be of interest to students and scholars in a variety of fields, and to anyone interested in the debate over whether government should restrict or prohibit abortion.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190904852
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Most arguments for or against abortion focus on one question: is the fetus a person? In this provocative and important book, David Boonin defends the claim that even if the fetus is a person with the same right to life you and I have, abortion should still be legal, and most current restrictions on abortion should be abolished. Beyond Roe points to a key legal precedent: McFall v. Shimp. In 1978, an ailing Robert McFall sued his cousin, David Shimp, asking the court to order Shimp to provide McFall with the bone marrow he needed. The court ruled in Shimp's favor and McFall soon died. Boonin extracts a compelling lesson from the case of McFall v. Shimp--that having a right to life does not give a person the right to use another person's body even if they need to use that person's body to go on living-and he uses this principle to support his claim that abortion should be legal and far less restricted than it currently is, regardless of whether the fetus is a person. By taking the analysis of the right to life that Judith Jarvis Thomson pioneered in a moral context and applying it in a legal context in this novel way, Boonin offers a fresh perspective that is grounded in assumptions that should be accepted by both sides of the abortion debate. Written in a lively, conversational style, and offering a case study of the value of reason in analyzing complex social issues, Beyond Roe will be of interest to students and scholars in a variety of fields, and to anyone interested in the debate over whether government should restrict or prohibit abortion.
Our Bodies, Our Crimes
Author: Jeanne Flavin
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814727549
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
"In this important work, Jeanne Flavin looks beyond abortion to document how the law and the criminal justice system police women's rights to conceive, to be pregnant, and to rear their children, as well as how the state seeks to establish what a "good woman" and "fit mother" should look like. Calling for broad-based measures that strengthen women's economic position, choice-making, autonomy, sexual freedom, and health care, Our Bodies, Our Crimes is a battle cry for all women in their fight to be fully recognized as human beings"--
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814727549
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
"In this important work, Jeanne Flavin looks beyond abortion to document how the law and the criminal justice system police women's rights to conceive, to be pregnant, and to rear their children, as well as how the state seeks to establish what a "good woman" and "fit mother" should look like. Calling for broad-based measures that strengthen women's economic position, choice-making, autonomy, sexual freedom, and health care, Our Bodies, Our Crimes is a battle cry for all women in their fight to be fully recognized as human beings"--
The Common Law Inside the Female Body
Author: Anita Bernstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107177812
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Explains why lawyers seeking gender progress from primary legal materials should start with the common law.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107177812
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Explains why lawyers seeking gender progress from primary legal materials should start with the common law.
The Turnaway Study
Author: Diana Greene Foster
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982141573
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
"Now with a new afterword by the author"--Back cover.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982141573
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
"Now with a new afterword by the author"--Back cover.
Criminal Justice Responses to Maternal Filicide
Author: Emma Milne
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1839096225
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Milne provides a comprehensive analysis of conviction outcomes through court transcripts of 14 criminal cases in England and Wales during 2010 to 2019. Drawing on feminist theories of responsibilisation and 'gendered harm', she critically reflects on the gendered nature of criminal justice's responses to suspected infanticide.
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1839096225
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Milne provides a comprehensive analysis of conviction outcomes through court transcripts of 14 criminal cases in England and Wales during 2010 to 2019. Drawing on feminist theories of responsibilisation and 'gendered harm', she critically reflects on the gendered nature of criminal justice's responses to suspected infanticide.
China's One-child Policy
Author: United States Congress
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781978079298
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
China's one-child policy: the government's massive crime against women and unborn babies : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, September 22, 2011.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781978079298
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
China's one-child policy: the government's massive crime against women and unborn babies : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, September 22, 2011.
Abortion Rights
Author: Kate Greasley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107170931
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Presents critical and forcefully argued debate between two moral philosophers, setting out strong cases on both sides of the argument.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107170931
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Presents critical and forcefully argued debate between two moral philosophers, setting out strong cases on both sides of the argument.