Rethinking Abortion (eBook)

Equal Choice, the Constitution, and Reproductive Politics

Mark Graber (Autor)

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1999 | 1. Auflage
256 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2197-6 (ISBN)

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GraberMark:

Mark A. Graber, who holds a Ph.D. and a J.D., is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Transforming Free Speech: The Ambiguous Legacy of Civil Libertarianism.

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Mark Graber looks at the history of abortion law in action to argue that the only defensible, constitutional approach to the issue is to afford all women equal choice--abortion should remain legal or bans should be strictly enforced. Steering away from metaphysical critiques of privacy, Graber compares the philosophical, constitutional, and democratic merits of the two systems of abortion regulation witnessed in the twentieth century: pre-Roe v. Wade statutory prohibitions on abortion and Roe's ban on significant state interference with the market for safe abortion services. He demonstrates that before Roe, pro-life measures were selectively and erratically administered, thereby subverting our constitutional commitment to equal justice. Claiming that these measures would be similarly administered if reinstated, the author seeks to increase support for keeping abortion legal, even among those who have reservations about its morality. Abortion should remain legal, Graber argues, because statutory bans on abortion have a history of being enforced in ways that intentionally discriminate against poor persons and persons of color. In the years before Roe, the same law enforcement officials who routinely ignored and sometimes assisted those physicians seeking to terminate pregnancies for their private patients too often prevented competent abortionists from offering the same services to the general public. This double standard violated the fundamental human and constitutional right of equal justice under law, a right that remains a major concern of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.3.1999
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Abortion • Abortion Debate • Abortion in Georgia (U.S. state) • Abortion in the United States • Abortion Law • Abortion-rights movements • Affirmative Action • American Life League • Andrea Dworkin • Anti-abortion movements • Barefoot v. Estelle • Bernard Nathanson • Birth Control • Black school • Brown v. Board of Education • City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health • Civil Rights Act of 1991 • Coroner • Crime • culture war • Curettage • Dan Quayle • Dilation and curettage • disparate impact • Dred Scott v. Sandford • Due Process Clause • Equal Rights Amendment • Executive Privilege • Family planning • Freedom of Choice Act • freedom of speech • Furman v. Georgia • Harris v. McRae • Henry David Thoreau • Hyde Amendment • illegal abortion • Impediment (canon law) • impunity • Incest • Indication (medicine) • infanticide • John Doe • Judicial Activism • judicial deference • just society • Law enforcement • Legalization • liberal elite • Mann Act • Marsh v. Alabama • Maternal death • McCleskey v. Kemp • Medicaid • mortal sin • NARAL Pro-Choice America • National Right to Life Committee • Natural Family Planning • Necessity • norma mccorvey • Operation Rescue (Kansas) • Oppression • Pacifism • Pathology • Payne v. Tennessee • Phyllis Schlafly • Planned Parenthood v. Casey • police state • Poor person • popular sovereignty • Premarital sex • Prostitution • Racial segregation • Racism • radical feminism • Reasonable suspicion • Rely (brand) • Reproductive rights • Republicans for Choice • Right to Privacy • Roe v. Wade • safe sex • Second Source • Secularism • Selective enforcement • Septic abortion • sexual abstinence • Sister Souljah • social liberalism • Spite fence • state actor • Sterilization (medicine) • Thalidomide • That Justice Be Done • The Politician (book) • Therapeutic abortion • Unintended Pregnancy • United States Bill of Rights • United States v. Vuitch • unsafe abortion • Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2197-5 / 1400821975
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2197-6 / 9781400821976