Abortion, Doctors and the Law

Abortion, Doctors and the Law
Author: John Keown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2002-06-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780521894135

This book focusses on the evolution of the law and medical practice of abortion in England.

Abortion Law and Politics Today

Abortion Law and Politics Today
Author: Ellie Lee
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1998-11-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349268763

Women's needs are placed at the centre of this collection. The contributors discuss the extent to which the contemporary legal framework on abortion matches the needs of women faced with unwanted pregnancy. The book contains sections on Britain, including an account of the campaign to legalize abortion, written by those centrally involved with that campaign; international comparisons of abortion law, with chapters on France, the United States, Ireland and Poland; and chapters covering contemporary debates, including men's rights in abortion and abortion for foetal abnormality.

Abortion in England 1900-1967

Abortion in England 1900-1967
Author: Barbara Brookes
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 0415622999

The book, originally published in 1988, suggests that the inter-war years saw a crucial mapping of boundaries in the debates over abortion.

Beyond Control

Beyond Control
Author: Sally Sheldon
Publisher: Law & Social Theory
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1997-06-20
Genre: Law
ISBN:

'[A]n accessible introduction to models and theories of human nature and how they inform our professional practice' Professional Social Work

Decriminalising Abortion in the UK

Decriminalising Abortion in the UK
Author: Sheldon, Sally
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2020-03-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1447354028

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The public and parliamentary debate about UK abortion law reform is often diverted away from key moral and political questions by disputes regarding basic questions of fact. And all too often, claims of scientific ‘fact’ are ideologically driven. But what effect would decriminalisation be likely to have on women’s health? What would be the impact on the incidence of abortions? Would decriminalisation equate to deregulation, sweeping away necessary restrictions on dangerous or malicious conduct? With each chapter written by leading experts in the fields of medicine, law, reproductive health and social science, this book offers a concise and authoritative account of the evidence regarding the likely impact of decriminalisation of abortion in the UK.

Beyond Pro-life and Pro-choice

Beyond Pro-life and Pro-choice
Author: Amery, Fran
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2020-01-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1529205379

Examining the changing pluralities of contemporary abortion debate in Britain, this innovative and important book shows why it is necessary to move beyond an understanding of abortion politics as characterised in binary terms by ‘pro-choice’ versus ‘pro-life’. Amery traces the evolution of political and parliamentary discourses from the passage of the Abortion Act in the 1960s to the present day, and argues that the current provision of abortion in Britain rests on assumptions about medical authority over women’s reproductive decision-making which are unsustainable. She explores new arguments around sex-selective abortion, disability rights, pre-abortion counselling and the push for decriminalization, and radically reconceptualizes the debate to account for these new battlegrounds in abortion politics.

Tiny You

Tiny You
Author: Jennifer L. Holland
Publisher:
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2020
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0520295862

Caroline Bancroft History Prize 2021, Denver Public Library Armitage-Jameson Prize 2021, Coalition of Western Women's History David J. Weber Prize 2021, Western History Association W. Turrentine Jackson Prize 2021, Western History Association Tiny You tells the story of one of the most successful political movements of the twentieth century: the grassroots campaign against legalized abortion. While Americans have rapidly changed their minds about sex education, pornography, arts funding, gay teachers, and ultimately gay marriage, opposition to legalized abortion has only grown. As other socially conservative movements have lost young activists, the pro-life movement has successfully recruited more young people to its cause. Jennifer L. Holland explores why abortion dominates conservative politics like no other cultural issue. Looking at anti-abortion movements in four western states since the 1960s--turning to the fetal pins passed around church services, the graphic images exchanged between friends, and the fetus dolls given to children in school--she argues that activists made fetal life feel personal to many Americans. Pro-life activists persuaded people to see themselves in the pins, images, and dolls they held in their hands and made the fight against abortion the primary bread-and-butter issue for social conservatives. Holland ultimately demonstrates that the success of the pro-life movement lies in the borrowed logic and emotional power of leftist activism.

Abortion in the USA and the UK

Abortion in the USA and the UK
Author: Colin Francome
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351961187

Recent years have revealed the different experiences of abortion in the UK and the USA. The United States has a higher abortion rate accompanied by a higher political profile for the issue. In fact, one of George W. Bush's first acts in 2001 was to ban American funding for overseas organizations carrying out abortions. The USA has also experienced a higher degree of abortion-related violence, with several people linked to abortion services being targeted and even killed. Compelling and enlightening in its approach, this invigorating volume compares the two countries' abortion laws and outlines the distinctions. The usually conservative American society has a much more liberal abortion law than the United Kingdom, whose female citizens can obtain an abortion relatively easily although in fact they do not have the right to choose. This stimulating volume examines the comparative positions taken by each country and makes important suggestions for the future.