Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Chronology of Abortion Politics XI
5. Introduction: Abortion Politics and History 1
6. PART ONE. COERCION, RESISTANCE, AND LIBERATION BEFORE ROE V. WADE
7. Introduction 13
8. 1 Pregnancy and Power before Roe v. Wade, 1950-1970 15
9. 2 Beyond Safe and Legal: The Lessons of Jane 33
10. 3 Women versus Connecticut: Conducting a Statewide Hearing on Abortion 42
11. PART TWO. STRATEGIC ARENAS
12. Introduction 71
13. 4 The Rule of Law, the Rise of Violence, and the Role of Morality: Reframing America's Abortion Debate 73
14. 5 Legal Strategies for Abortion Rights in the Twenty-first Century 95
15. 6 Electoral Politics and Abortion: Narrowing the Message 111
16. 7 Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and the Right of Privacy 124
17. PART THREE. ACTIVISM
18. Introduction 159
19. 8 African-American Women and Abortion 161
20. 9 Abortion in the United States—Legal But Inaccessible 208
21. 10 Rescuing the Nation: Operation Rescue and the Rise of Anti-Abortion Militance 227
22. 11 Toward Coalition: The Reproductive Health Technologies Project 251
23. PART FOUR. PHYSICIANS AND THE POLITICS OF PROVISION
24. Introduction 271
25. 12 "We Called It Kindness": Establishing a Feminist Abortion Practice 273
26. 13 The Twentieth-Century Gender Battle: Difficulties in Perception 290
27. 14 Life on the Front Lines 307
28. 15 The Crisis in Abortion Provision and Pro-Choice Médical Activism in the 1990s 320
29. PART FIVE. REINTERPRETING ABORTION RIGHTS OVER TIME
30. Introduction 337
31. 16 Regendering the U.S. Abortion Debate 339
32. 17 Psychologies of Abortion: Implications of a Changing Context 356
33. 18 Disability Rights and Selective Abortion 374
34. Contributors 395
35. Index 401