5. A Functionalist Approach to Comparative Abortion Law119

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Constitutional Values and Regulatory Regimes
5. 1. The Constitutionalization of Abortion 13
6. 2. Abortion in Portugal: New Trends in European Constitutionalism 36
7. 3. Women’s Rights in the Abortion Decision of the Slovak Constitutional Court 56
8. 4. Proportionality in the Constitutional Review of Abortion Law 77
9. 5. A Functionalist Approach to Comparative Abortion Law119 98
10. Part II. Procedural Justice and Liberal Access
11. 6. The Procedural Turn: Abortion at the European Court of Human Rights 121
12. 7. The Struggle Against Informal Rules on Abortion in Argentina 143
13. 8. Reforming African Abortion Laws and Practice: The Place of Transparency 166
14. Part III. Framing and Claiming Rights
15. 9. The Medical Framework and Early Medical Abortion in the U.K.: How Can a State Control Swallowing? 189
16. 10. The Right to Conscience 210
17. 11. Catholic Constitutionalism on Sex, Women, and the Beginning of Life 239
18. 12. Bringing Abortion into the Brazilian Public Debate: Legal Strategies for Anencephalic Pregnancy 258
19. 13. Toward Transformative Equality in Nepal: The Lakshmi Dhikta Decision 279
20. Part IV. Narratives and Social Meaning
21. 14. Reckoning with Narratives of Innocent Suffering in Transnational Abortion Litigation 303
22. 15. Narratives of Prenatal Personhood in Abortion Law 327
23. 16. Stigmatized Meanings of Criminal Abortion Law 347
24. Table of Cases 371
25. Table of Legislation, Treaties, and Other Relevant Instruments 379
26. Notes 387
27. Contributors 457
28. Index 459
29. Acknowledgments 471