This volume present shorts, practical essays on key issues in reproductive ethics written by leading experts in the fields of medicine, ethics, and law and organized into three main sections: preventing pregnancy and birth (family planning and abortion ethics), initiating pregna…
Although statistically common, and legal since 1973, abortion still bears significant stigma-a proverbial scarlet A. Fear of this stigma leads most of the women and men who are part of the 21% of American pregnancies that end in abortion to remain silent. This book brings the st…
Although Roe v. Wade identified abortion as a constitutional right 45 years ago, it still bears stigma--a proverbial scarlet A. Millions of Americans have participated in or benefited from an abortion, but few want to reveal that they have done so. Approximately one in five preg…
Ordinary abortion: common and clandestine -- Abortion storytelling: law, masterplots, and counter-narratives -- Abortion conversation: linguistics, politics, and law -- Abortion ethics I: whether -- Abortion ethics II: when -- Abortion politics: what are we really fighting about?
Although statistically common, and legal since 1973, abortion still bears significant stigma--a proverbial scarlet A. Fear of this stigma leads most of the women and men who are part of the 21% of American pregnancies that end in abortion to remain silent. This book brings the s…
Although Roe v. Wade identified abortion as a constitutional right 45 years ago, it still bears stigma - a proverbial scarlet A. Millions of Americans have participated in or benefited from an abortion, but few want to reveal that they have done so. Approximately one in five pre…
