Abortion: History, Politics, and Reproductive Justice after Morgentaler

Abortion: History, Politics, and Reproductive Justice after Morgentaler
ISBN-10
0774835761
ISBN-13
9780774835763
Series
Abortion
Category
Medical
Pages
372
Language
English
Published
2017-12-01
Publisher
UBC Press
Authors
Kristin Burnett, Shannon Stettner, Travis Hay

Description

When Henry Morgentaler, Canada’s best-known abortion rights advocate, died in 2013, activists and scholars began to reassess the state of abortion in the country. In this volume, some of Canada’s foremost researchers challenge current thinking about abortion by revealing the discrepancy between what Canadians believe the law to be after the 1988 Morgentaler decision and what people are experiencing on the ground. Showcasing new theoretical frameworks and approaches from law, history, medicine, women’s studies, and political science, these timely essays reveal the diversity of abortion experiences across the country, past and present, and make a case for shifting the debate from abortion rights to reproductive justice.

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