Abortion Care as Moral Work

Ethical Considerations of Maternal and Fetal Bodies

Buch | Hardcover

202 Seiten

2022
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9727-0 (ISBN)

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Brings together the voices of abortion providers, abortion counsellors, clinic owners, neonatologists, bioethicists, and historians to discuss how and why providing abortion care is moral work. The collection offers voices not usually heard as clinicians talk about their work and their thoughts about life and death.

Abortion Care as Moral Work brings together the voices of abortion providers, abortion counselors, clinic owners, neonatologists, bioethicists, and historians to discuss how and why providing abortion care is moral work. The collection offers voices not usually heard as clinicians talk about their work and their thoughts about life and death. In four subsections--Providers, Clinics, Conscience, and The Fetus--the contributions in this anthology explore the historical context and present-day challenges to the delivery of abortion care. Contributing authors address the motivations that lead abortion providers to offer abortion care, discuss the ways in which anti-abortion regulations have made it increasingly difficult to offer feminist-inspired services, and ponder the status of the fetus and the ethical frameworks supporting abortion care and fetal research. Together these essays provide a feminist moral foundation to reassert that abortion care is moral work.

JOHANNA SCHOEN is a professor of history at Rutgers University-New Brunswick in New Jersey. She is the author of Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare, and Abortion after Roe.

Introduction: Providing Abortion Care

Part 1 Providers

1 A Narrative

Morris Turner

2 Being an Abortionist

Marc Heller

3 Establishing Abortion Counseling

Terry Beresford

Part 2 Clinics

4 Providing Compassionate Abortion Care in a Hostile Climate

Amy Hagstrom Miller

5 Improving Abortion Care One Clinic at a Time

Renee Chelian

Part 3 Conscience

6 From Conscience Clauses to Conscience Wars

Sara Dubow

7 Abortion as an Act of Conscience

Curtis Boyd and Glenna Halvorson-Boyd

8 The Meaning of Viability in Abortion Care

Shelley Sella

9 Dangertalk: Voices of Abortion Providers

Lisa A. Martin, Jane A. Hassinger, Michelle Debbink, and Lisa H. Harris

Part 4 The Fetus

10 How Science Is Made: Nineteenth-Century Embryology and Fetal Interpretations

Shannon K. Withycombe

11 A Feminist Defense of Fetal Tissue Research

Thomas V. Cunningham

12 Definitions of Viability and Their Meaning for Neonatal Care

John Colin Partridge

Notes on Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.07.2022
Co-Autor	Curtis Boyd, Glenna Boyd, Renee Chelian, Thomas Cunningham
Zusatzinfo	4 color photographs
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	4 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8135-9727-7 / 0813597277
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-9727-0 / 9780813597270
Zustand	Neuware