Abortion law and politics today / edited by Ellie Lee.
1998
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Title
Abortion law and politics today / edited by Ellie Lee.
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Call Number
KD3340 .A922 1998
ISBN
033371556X
0312215746 (cloth)
0312215746 (cloth)
Description
xviii, 233 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)38738975
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Editor's Introduction
Pt. I
Abortion Law in Britain
1
1Voices from the 1960s: Abortion Law Reform in Britain in the 1960s - What were the Issues Then? / Madeleine Simms
5
1Voices from the 1960s: A Medical View of Abortion in the 1960s / David Paintin
12
1Voices from the 1960s: Campaigning for Abortion Law Reform / Dilys Cossey
20
2Women's Experience of Abortion before the 1967 Abortion Act: a Study of South Wales c. 1930-1950 / Kate Fisher
27
3The Abortion Act 1967: a Critical Perspective / Sally Sheldon
43
4Dominant Ideas versus Women's Reality: Hegemonic Discourse in British Abortion Law / Maxine Lattimer
59
5A Woman's Right to Choose? / Jo Bridgeman
76
Pt. II
International Comparisons
95
6Abortion in Ireland: Abortion in Northern Ireland: a Problem Exported / Audrey Simpson
99
6Abortion in Ireland: Abortion Law in the Republic of Ireland / Tony O'Brien
110
7From Abortion on Demand to its Criminalization: the Case of Poland in the 1990s / Dominic Standish
116
8Reform and Revolution: the Campaigns for Abortion in Britain and France / Melanie Latham
130
9Abortion Rights in the United States: Discourse and Dissension / Frances Kissling Denise Shannon
144
Pt. III
New Debates
157
10Wrong but the Right Thing to Do: Public Opinion and Abortion / Ann Furedi
159
11Prenatal Tests: Blessings and Burdens / Janet Hadley
172
12Reproductive Technology: New Ethical Dilemmas and Old Moral Prejudices / Juliet Tizzard
184
13Abortion Decision-making - Taking Men's Needs Seriously / Marie Fox
198
14Abortion: Should Men Have a Say? / David Nolan
216
Index
232