Abortion And The Law

Author : Rebecca J. Cook
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812209990
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective written by Rebecca J. Cook and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is increasingly implausible to speak of a purely domestic abortion law, as the legal debates around the world draw on precedents and influences of different national and regional contexts. While the United States and Western Europe may have been the vanguard of abortion law reform in the latter half of the twentieth century, Central and South America are proving to be laboratories of thought and innovation in the twenty-first century, as are particular countries in Africa and Asia. Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective offers a fresh look at significant transnational legal developments in recent years, examining key judicial decisions, constitutional texts, and regulatory reforms of abortion law in order to envision ways ahead. The chapters investigate issues of access, rights, and justice, as well as social constructions of women, sexuality, and pregnancy, through different legal procedures and regimes. They address the promises and risks of using legal procedure to achieve reproductive justice from different national, regional, and international vantage points; how public and courtroom debates are framed within medical, religious, and human rights arguments; the meaning of different narratives that recur in abortion litigation and language; and how respect for women and prenatal life is expressed in various legal regimes. By exploring how legal actors advocate, regulate, and adjudicate the issue of abortion, this timely volume seeks to build on existing developments to bring about change of a larger order. Contributors: Luis Roberto Barroso, Paola Bergallo, Rebecca J. Cook, Bernard M. Dickens, Joanna N. Erdman, Lisa M. Kelly, Adriana Lamačková, Julieta Lemaitre, Alejandro Madrazo, Charles G. Ngwena, Rachel Rebouché, Ruth Rubio-Marín, Sally Sheldon, Reva B. Siegel, Verónica Undurraga, Melissa Upreti.

Author : Mary Ann Glendon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674001619
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abortion and Divorce in Western Law written by Mary Ann Glendon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about two subjects which have been discussed extensively and these are abortion and divorce. The Author shows both side of argument, demand for abortion and no abortion at all.

Author : Leslie J. Reagan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520387422
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Abortion Was a Crime written by Leslie J. Reagan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John Keown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521894135
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abortion, Doctors and the Law written by John Keown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focusses on the evolution of the law and medical practice of abortion in England.

Author : Henrik Friberg-Fernros
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319572911
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making a Case for Stricter Abortion Laws written by Henrik Friberg-Fernros and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book questions how abortion laws can be regulated in a time when abortion rights are still subject to intense debate. It addresses objections to basing abortion law on considerations of moral risk, presents two anti-abortion arguments – the deprivation argument and the substance view – to demonstrate the risk of permitting abortion, and discusses the moral risk of restricting access to abortion when it may unjustifiably harm women. The author also shows how welfare states can address the negative effects of restrictive abortion laws by preventive, mitigative and compensatory measures. This is a thought-provoking and challenging book that will be of great interest to those considering abortion laws across the fields of medical ethics, bioethics, moral philosophy, law and politics.

Author : N. E. H. Hull
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roe V. Wade written by N. E. H. Hull and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of abortion has sharply divided America. The bitter debate over Roe v. Wade - in the courts, legislatures, press and streets - has grown ever more ferocious since the Supreme Court's landmark decision in 1973. For years pro-choicers have applauded Roe as a guarantee of women's rights, while pro-lifers have condemned it as the work of an activist and atheistic Court. Now it looms at the centre of a growing political storm, as a new president, and old Court, and a divided Congress reconsider Roe's status in the wake of the controversial 2000 elections.

Author : John Douglas Butler
Publisher : Facts on File
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abortion, Medicine, and the Law written by John Douglas Butler and published by Facts on File. This book was released on 1986 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of original and reprinted articles expressing views on all aspects of the subject of abortion.

Author : Kate Greasley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107170931
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abortion Rights written by Kate Greasley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents critical and forcefully argued debate between two moral philosophers, setting out strong cases on both sides of the argument.

Author : Organisation mondiale de la santé
Publisher : World Health Organization
ISBN 13 : 9241590343
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Safe Abortion written by Organisation mondiale de la santé and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2003-05-13 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a UN General Assembly Special Session in 1999, governments recognised unsafe abortion as a major public health concern, and pledged their commitment to reduce the need for abortion through expanded and improved family planning services, as well as ensure abortion services should be safe and accessible. This technical and policy guidance provides a comprehensive overview of the many actions that can be taken in health systems to ensure that women have access to good quality abortion services as allowed by law.

Author : Albin Eser
Publisher : T.M.C. Asser Press
ISBN 13 : 9789067041973
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abortion and the Law written by Albin Eser and published by T.M.C. Asser Press. This book was released on 2005-07-28 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a compact summary of the results of a world-wide survey on abortion law and practice in a total of 64 countries, carried out by the Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiberg, Germany. The work provides a summary of social conditions and historical developments, followed by a detailed comparison of legal regulations, and is supplemented by statistics on the termination of pregnancy. The final chapter contains reflections from a legal policy perspective. Important findings, insights and trends are summarized and guidelines for reform are provided. The book concludes with a proposal for a law to regulate the termination of pregnancy, and although this proposal was intended primarily as a contribution to the legal political debate in Germany, it could also be used as the catalyst for debate on reform in other countries.