The Pregnancy Police : Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howard, Grace E.

Series:

Reproductive Justice: a New Vision for the 21st Century Series

Reproductive Justice: a New Vision for the 21st Century Series ; v.10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pregnant women--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.

Pregnant women.

Reproductive rights--United States.

Reproductive rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2024.

Summary:

Decades before the overturning of Roe v. Wade, pregnant people faced arrest and prosecution for supposed crimes against the fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses they gestated. The Pregnancy Police investigates the legal arguments undergirding these prosecutions and sheds much-needed light on the networks of health-care providers, social workers, and legal personnel participating in this ongoing surveillance and punishment of pregnant people. Drawing on detailed analyses of legislation, statements from prosecutors and law enforcement, and records from over a thousand arrest cases, Grace E. Howard traces the long history of state attempts to regulate and control people who have the capacity for pregnancy--from the early twentieth century's white supremacist eugenics to the end of Roe and the ever-increasing criminalization of abortion across the United States.

Contents:

Cover

Series Editor

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Peril of Protection

2. Angels and Antimothers

3. Bad Breeders

4. "The Dead Babies May Be the Lucky Ones

5. "I Felt Like Nobody

6. Wielding the Velvet Hammer

7. Conclusion

Appendix 1: Methodology

Appendix 2: Court Cases

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520391093

0520391098

OCLC:

1429613445