Abortion Law and Politics Today

JO BRIDGEMAN Lecturer in Law at the Centre for Legal Studies, University of SussexDILYS COSSEY Manager of the Parliamentarians Project of the European Network International Planned Parenthood FederationKATE FISHER Currently completing a doctoral studyMARIE FOX Lecturer in Law at Manchester UniversityANN FUREDI Director of Birth Control TrustJANET HADLEY Journalist and writer specialising in health and social policy issuesFRANCES KISSLING President of the Washington based pro-choice advocacy organisationMELANIE LATHAM Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, University of ManchesterMAXINE LATTIMER Doctoral student in Social Anthropology, University of SussexDAVID NOLAN Press and Information Officer for Birth Control Trust and news editor of Abortion ReviewTONY O'BRIEN International consultant on reproductive health advocacyDAVID PAINTIN Emeritus Reader in Obstetrics and gynaecology at Imperial College School of MedicineDENISE SHANNON Senior Associate at Catholics For a Free ChoiceSALLY SHELDON Lecturer in Health Law at the University of KeeleMADELEINE SIMMS Served on the executive committee of the Abortion Law Reform Association AUDEREY SIMPSON Director of the Family Planning Association, Northern IrelandDOMINIC STANDISH Researcher at the University of Kent at CanterburyJULIET TIZZARD Director of Progress Educational Trust

'In this collection, Ellie Lee brings together innovative essays about the debates surrounding abortion. On a subject where controversy is inevitable, the authors in this extremely valuable volume offer us a reading of abortion for the twenty-first century.' - Professor Mary Evans, University of Kent at Canterbury

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Editor's Introduction PART I Voices from the 1960s: Abortion Law Reform in Britain in the 1960s - What were the Issues then?; M. Simms A Medical View of Abortion in the 1960s; D. Paintin Campaigning for Abortion Law Reform; D. Cossey Women's Experience of Abortion Before the 1967 Abortion Act: a Study of South Wales c. 1930-50; K. Fisher The Abortion Act 1967: a Critical Perspective; S. Sheldon Dominant Ideas versus Women's Reality: Hegemonic Discourse in British Abortion Law; M. Lattimer A Woman's Right to Choose?; J. Bridgeman PART II Abortion in Northern Ireland: A Problem Exported; A. Simpson Abortion Law in the Republic of Ireland; T. O'Brien From Abortion on Demand to its Criminalisation: the Case of Poland in the 1990s; D. Standish Reform and Revolution: the Campaigns for Abortion in Britain and France; M. Latham Abortion Rights in the United States: Discourse and Dissension; F. Kissling and D. Shannon PART III Wrong but the Right Thing to Do: Public Opinion and Abortion; A. Furedi Prenatal Tests: Blessings and Burdens; J. Hadley Reproductive Technology: New Ethical Dilemmas and Old Moral Prejudices; J. Tizzard Abortion Decision-Making: Taking Men's Needs Seriously; M. Fox Abortion: Should Men have a Say?; D. Nolan Index