Abortion regret : the new attack on reproductive freedom

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Ehrlich, J. Shoshanna author

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"Abortion Regret" explores the emergence and consolidation of the anti-abortion movement's paternalistic efforts to 'protect" women from abortion regret. It begins by examining the 19th-century phy...

"Abortion Regret" explores the emergence and consolidation of the anti-abortion movement's paternalistic efforts to 'protect" women from abortion regret. It begins by examining the 19th-century physicians' campaign to criminalize abortion and traces the contours of the women-protective abortion regret narrative through to the 21st century.--

"[This book provides an] account of the emergence, consolidation, and consequences of the antiabortion movement's paternalistic abortion regret narrative. [This book]: examines the historical continuity of the abortion regret narrative as a political strategy used to limit women's access to abortion; asserts that the abortion regret narrative is intimately tied to a gendered and paternalistic construction of women's divine role as mothers; examines the antiabortion movement's strategy to place the 'grieving' mother at the center of its oppositional narrative; uses interviews, textual analysis of primary sources, and content analysis of state antiabortion policies to trace the growing impact of the abortion regret narrative; and examines and reveals the antiabortion movement's calculated political motivation for using the abortion regret narrative as its primary strategy to oppose abortion rights."--

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