Abortion After Roe
Johanna Schoen
Abstract
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. This book sheds light on the little-studied experience of performing and receivin ... More
Keywords: Legal abortion, Abortion services, Abortion stigma, Abortion providers, Women’s health clinics, Abortion procedures, Reproductive rights, Reproductive justice, Anti-abortion movement, Pro-choice movement
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9781469621180 |
| Published to North Carolina Scholarship Online: May 2016 | DOI:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469621180.001.0001 |
