Safe, Legal, and Unavailable? Abortion Politics in the United StatesSAGE Publications, 2007 - 235 páginas The Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade legalized abortion. Yet while the medical procedure is legal—and safe—many women across the country do not have the ability to exercise this reproductive right. Melody Rose examines abortion as a social regulatory policy, thoughtfully and thoroughly chronicling the erosion of abortion rights and availability since Roe. Paying respect to all views of this controversial topic in her engaging new book, Rose explores the success of the right-to-life movement in accumulating local and national policies that restrict access to abortion while enhancing fetal protections. In addition to a basic and brief primer on the practice and history of abortion, Rose considers the roles played by the courts, political parties, and interest groups in constructing barriers to abortion. With an examination of public opinion poll data and a look at both state and national statutory prohibitions on abortion, Rose also shows how powerful language wars have resulted in material policy alterations. Chapter-opening vignettes and vivid storytelling make this brief and topical supplement a good read that is sure to get your students thinking critically about this highly charged topic. As well, the author has augmented chapters with further reading suggestions and provocative discussion questions that invite insightful discussion and analysis. |
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... performed as emergencies : women face a host of health risks during pregnancy that can become life threatening . And , as one physician I interviewed pointed out , physicians who wish not to perform abortions may still need to counsel ...
... performed abortions throughout the nineteenth century and continued to do so into the 1920s . Dur- ing the 1960s when abortion was illegal , lay women formed a collective which called itself JANE and learned how to perform abortions for ...
... performed in hospitals , - minors younger than the age of eighteen have parental consent or judicial authorization for their abortions , - two doctors be present at the abortion of a viable fetus , and a pathologist's report be obtained ...
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Just the Facts | 30 |
Conclusion | 50 |
Abortion on Demand? The Supreme Court | 57 |
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