Lawful Sins : Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico / Elyse Ona Singer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Singer, Elyse Ona, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abortion--Social aspects--Mexico.

Abortion.

Abortion--Government policy--Mexico.

Reproductive rights--Mexico.

Reproductive rights.

Women's rights--Mexico.

Women's rights.

Women--Mexico--Social conditions.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Mexico is at the center of the global battle over abortion. In 2007, a watershed reform legalized the procedure in the national capital, making it one of just three places across Latin America where it was permitted at the time. Abortion care is now available on demand and free of cost through a pioneering program of the Mexico City Ministry of Health, which has served hundreds of thousands of women. At the same time, abortion laws have grown harsher in several states outside the capital as part of a coordinated national backlash. In this book, Elyse Ona Singer argues that while pregnant women in Mexico today have options that were unavailable just over a decade ago, they are also subject to the expanded reach of the Mexican state and the Catholic Church over their bodies and reproductive lives. By analyzing the moral politics of clinical encounters in Mexico City's public abortion program, Lawful Sins offers a critical account of the relationship among reproductive rights, gendered citizenship, and public healthcare. With timely insights on global struggles for reproductive justice, Singer reorients prevailing perspectives that approach abortion rights as a hallmark of women's citizenship in liberal societies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acronyms

Introduction

1. The Past Is Never Dead . . . : Reproductive Governance in Modern Mexico

2. The Right to Sin: Abortion Rights in the Shadow of the Church

3. Being (a) Patient: The Making of Public Abortion

4. Abortion as Social Labor: Protection and Responsibility in Public Abortion Care

5. At the Limit of Rights: Abortion in the Extralegal Sphere

Conclusion

Coda

Acknowledgments

Appendix: ILE Patient Interview Sample

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503631489

1503631486

OCLC:

1312727371