The Cost of Choice: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion

by Erika Bachiochi (Editor)

Overview

Captures the moral, legal, medical and political complexities surrounding abortion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594030512
Publisher:	Encounter Books
Publication date:	10/01/2004
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.96(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	vii
	Introduction	xi
Part I	Abortion, Women and Culture
1	From Culture Wars to Building a Culture of Life	3
2	Three Decades of Empty Promises	14
3	Coming of Age in a Culture of Choice	22
4	The Feminist Case Against Abortion	33
5	Living in the Shadow of Monchberg: Prenatal Testing and Genetic Abortion	39
6	Abortion: A War on Women	50
Part II	Abortion and Women's Health
7	Reviewing the Evidence, Breaking the Silence: Long-Term Physical and Psychological Health Consequences of Induced Abortion	63
8	The Abortion-Breast Cancer Link: The Studies and the Science	72
9	The Psychological Aftermath of Three Decades of Abortion	87
Part III	Abortion, Law, Regulation and Alternatives
10	The Supreme Court and the Creation of the Two-Dimensional Woman	103
11	Abortion Clinic Regulation: Combating the True "Back Alley"	122
12	Abortion-Alternative Legislation and the Law of the Gift	133
	About the Contributors	139
	Acknowledgments	143
	Notes	145
	Index	173