Abortion after Roe
"Abortion is--and always has been--an arena for contesting power relations between women and men. When in 1973 the Supreme Court made the procedure legal throughout the United States, it seemed that women were at last able to make decisions about their own bodies. In the four decades that follo...
| Main Author: | Schoen, Johanna, |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2015]
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| Physical Description: |
xv, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series: |
Studies in social medicine.
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| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: |
Book review (H-Net) |
Table of Contents:
- Living through some giant change: the establishment of abortion services
- Medicine at the edges of life: abortion and fetal research
- The formation of the National Abortion Federation and the standards debate
- The development of dilation and evacuation and the debate over fetal bodies
- To protect the lives of American babies: the escalation of antiabortion activism
- Truths, lies, and partial truths: the debate surrounding intact D & E.