Abortion Care As Moral Work

Ethical Considerations of Maternal and Fetal Bodies

AvJohanna Schoen

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Abortion Care as Moral Work brings together the voices of abortion providers, abortion counselors, clinic owners, neonatologists, bioethicists, and historians to discuss how and why providing abortion care is moral work. The collection offers voices not usually heard as clinicians talk about their work and their thoughts about life and death. In four subsections--Providers, Clinics, Conscience, and The Fetus--the contributions in this anthology explore the historical context and present-day challenges to the delivery of abortion care. Contributing authors address the motivations that lead abortion providers to offer abortion care, discuss the ways in which anti-abortion regulations have made it increasingly difficult to offer feminist-inspired services, and ponder the status of the fetus and the ethical frameworks supporting abortion care and fetal research. Together these essays provide a feminist moral foundation to reassert that abortion care is moral work.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-06-30
Mått:153 x 228 x 14 mm
Vikt:254 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Antal sidor:202
Förlag:Rutgers University Press
ISBN:9780813597263

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JOHANNA SCHOEN is a professor of history at Rutgers University-New Brunswick in New Jersey. She is the author of Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare, and Abortion after Roe.

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"A timely exploration of the moral implications of abortion access, abortion care, and the institutions and individuals that provide it. . . . The book is an important addition to the corpus of literature about the emotional and moral aspects of abortion." (Medical Anthropology Quarterly) "This collection contains some truly moving personal testimony that deserves a wide readership. The voices of providers are what make the collection so powerful." - Janet Golden (author of Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought Americans into the Twentieth Century) "Beautiful, depressing, and hopeful. This book is crucial for understanding the realities of abortion in America. As told by providers, women who have abortions, and scholars, the stories in this book upend the lie that paints abortion users and practitioners as frivolous and uncaring human beings. Abortion Care reveals the the care, love, and deep morality that guides abortion practice."- Leslie J. Reagan (author of Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America)

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Introduction: Providing Abortion CarePart 1 Providers1 A NarrativeMorris Turner2 Being an AbortionistMarc Heller3 Establishing Abortion CounselingTerry BeresfordPart 2 Clinics4 Providing Compassionate Abortion Care in a Hostile ClimateAmy Hagstrom Miller5 Improving Abortion Care One Clinic at a TimeRenee ChelianPart 3 Conscience6 From Conscience Clauses to Conscience WarsSara Dubow7 Abortion as an Act of ConscienceCurtis Boyd and Glenna Halvorson-Boyd8 The Meaning of Viability in Abortion CareShelley Sella9 Dangertalk: Voices of Abortion ProvidersLisa A. Martin, Jane A. Hassinger, Michelle Debbink, and Lisa H. HarrisPart 4 The Fetus10 How Science Is Made: Nineteenth-Century Embryology and Fetal InterpretationsShannon K. Withycombe11 A Feminist Defense of Fetal Tissue ResearchThomas V. Cunningham12 Definitions of Viability and Their Meaning for Neonatal CareJohn Colin PartridgeNotes on ContributorsIndex