Abortion after Roe /
Schoen, Johanna,
Abortion after Roe / Johanna Schoen. - xv, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Studies in social medicine . - Studies in social medicine. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-320) and index.
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.
"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 followed, however, abortion became ever more politicized and stigmatized. Abortion after Roe chronicles and analyzes what the new legal status and changing political environment have meant for abortion providers and their patients"--
9781469621180 (cloth : alk. paper) 1469621185 (cloth : alk. paper)
2015018009
Abortion--Social aspects--United States.
Abortion--Political aspects--United States.
Abortion--Public opinion.--United States
Abortion--Government policy--United States.
Abortion services--United States.
Pro-life movement--United States.
Dilatation and extraction abortion--United States.
HQ767.5.U5 / S36 2015
362.1988/80973
Abortion after Roe / Johanna Schoen. - xv, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Studies in social medicine . - Studies in social medicine. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-320) and index.
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.
"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 followed, however, abortion became ever more politicized and stigmatized. Abortion after Roe chronicles and analyzes what the new legal status and changing political environment have meant for abortion providers and their patients"--
9781469621180 (cloth : alk. paper) 1469621185 (cloth : alk. paper)
2015018009
Abortion--Social aspects--United States.
Abortion--Political aspects--United States.
Abortion--Public opinion.--United States
Abortion--Government policy--United States.
Abortion services--United States.
Pro-life movement--United States.
Dilatation and extraction abortion--United States.
HQ767.5.U5 / S36 2015
362.1988/80973