The pregnancy police : conceiving crime, arresting personhood / Grace E. Howard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howard, Grace, 1988- author.

Series:

Reproductive justice ; 10.

Reproductive justice : a new vision for the twenty-first century ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Pregnant women.

Reproductive rights--United States.

Reproductive rights.

Physical Description:

x, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : 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." -- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction

The peril of protection

Angels and antimothers

Bad breeders

"The dead babies may be the lucky ones"

"I felt like nobody"

Wielding the velvet hammer

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-268) and index.

ISBN:

9780520391062

0520391063

9780520391079

0520391071

OCLC:

1405188860