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The pieces in Part 1 explore the legal, sociocultural, and healthcare contexts of abortion. These contexts set the conditions of possibility for women who seek to terminate a pregnancy and, to some extent, for the prac-titioners who provide them.
1 Φεβ 2017 · The legal context for abortion – whether or not the state allows abortions and how it regulates them – sets the framework for providers of abortion services and for the women who seek such services. At the start of the 20th century, abortion was illegal in almost every country of the world.
Gale offers an overview of issues related to abortion, derived from scholarly sources and academic journals. Read about legislation, activism and more.
Shannon Stettner, Kristin Burnett, and Travis Hay. This book arose out of a desire to revisit the study of abortion history and politics, as well as to draw attention to the nascent but growing and dynamic scholarship on reproductive justice in Canada.
Abstract. Four decades after Roe v. Wade, abortion remains highly contentious, pitting a woman's right to choose against a fetal claim to life. Public health implications are staggering: the US annual total of more than one million induced abortions equals nearly half the number of registered deaths from all causes.
Abortion in Context: Historical Trends and Future Changes. By Alice S. Rossi and Bhavani Sitaraman. Summary. Reform of abortion laws in the United States stemmed from concern over the health consequences of illegal abortion.
The leading histories have focused on the evolution of the arguments and alliances that shape abortion debate today, rights-based prolife and pro-choice arguments, alliances between women's rights leaders and public health advocates, and the adoption of pro-choice positions by the Democratic Party and pro-life positions by the Republicans.
