The cost of choice : women evaluate the impact of abortion / preface by Jean Bethke Elshtain ; edited by Erika Bachiochi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bachiochi, Erika.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abortion--United States--Public opinion.

Abortion.

United States.

Public opinion.

Public opinion--United States.

Physical Description:

xvii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Encounter Books, [2004]

Summary:

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

Contents:

Part I Abortion, Women and Culture

1 From Culture Wars to Building a Culture of Life / Mary Ann Glendon 3

2 Three Decades of Empty Promises / Candace C. Crandall 14

3 Coming of Age in a Culture of Choice / Erika Bachiochi 22

4 The Feminist Case Against Abortion / Serrin M. Foster 33

5 Living in the Shadow of Monchberg: Prenatal Testing and Genetic Abortion / Elizabeth Schiltz 39

6 Abortion: A War on Women / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese 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 / Dr. Elizabeth M. Shadigian 63

8 The Abortion-Breast Cancer Link: The Studies and the Science / Dr. Angela Lanfranchi 72

9 The Psychological Aftermath of Three Decades of Abortion / Dr. E. Joanne Angelo 87

Part III Abortion, Law, Regulation and Alternatives

10 The Supreme Court and the Creation of the Two-Dimensional Woman / Paige Comstock Cunningham 103

11 Abortion Clinic Regulation: Combating the True "Back Alley" / Denise M. Burke 122

12 Abortion-Alternative Legislation and the Law of the Gift / Dorinda C. Bordlee 133.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-171) and index.

ISBN:

1594030510

OCLC:

55682623