A woman's life is a human life : my mother, our neighbor, and the journey from reproductive rights to reproductive justice / Felicia Kornbluh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kornbluh, Felicia, 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reproductive rights--United States--History.

Reproductive rights.

Abortion--Law and legislation--United States--History.

Abortion.

Sterilization (Birth control)--United States--History.

Sterilization (Birth control).

Abortion--Law and legislation.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxv, 404 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2023.

Summary:

"Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, historian Felicia Kornbluh delivers an urgent book about two key reproductive rights victories in New York that set the tone for the nation. A Woman's Life Is a Human Life is the story of two movements that transformed the politics of reproductive rights: the fight to decriminalize abortion and the campaign against sterilization abuse, which happened disproportionately in communities of color. Their victories occurred just before and after the Roe v. Wade decision, and their histories cast new light on the case and the fate of reproductive choice today. From dissident Democrats who were first to try reforming abortion laws, to clergy leading the nation's largest abortion referral service, to Puerto Rican activists who introduced sterilization abuse to the reproductive rights agenda, and Black women who took the cause global, A Woman's Life Is a Human Life chronicles the diverse ways activists changed the law and demanded reproductive justice. With firsthand accounts and previously unseen sources--including from her mother, who drafted New York's law decriminalizing abortion, and their across-the-hall neighbor, Dr. Helen Rodríguez-Trías, a Puerto Rican doctor and leader in the movement against sterilization abuse--Felicia Kornbluh shows how grassroots action overcame the odds-and how it might work today"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue

Introduction: Both sides

Reformers and reform

Change the law NOW

Want an abortion? Ask your minister

or your rabbi

Repeal gets a hearing

Into the courts!

Game changer

Palante

To the Supreme Court

Fighting population control in 1970s New York City

Toward reproductive freedom

Epilogue: What then? What now?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Kornbluh, Felicia. Woman's life is a human life.

ISBN:

9780802160683

0802160689

OCLC:

1348178287