Abortion wars: The Fight for Reproductive Rights - Brossura

Orr, Judith

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ISBN 10: 1447339118 ISBN 13: 9781447339113

Casa editrice: Policy Press, 2017

Riassunto

As Roe v. Wade comes under renewed scrutiny in the United States, 2017 marks the fiftieth anniversary of another landmark shift in abortion policy: Britain’s 1967 Abortion Act. But in the United Kingdom as in the United States, the struggle for abortion rights is far from over. In this hard-hitting, urgent book, socialist writer and leading UK pro-choice campaigner Judith Orr argues that the time has come for women to control their fertility without the practical, legal, and ideological barriers they have faced for generations.

Combining analysis of media coverage, statistics, popular culture, and social attitudes with powerful firsthand accounts of women’s experiences, Orr measures the Act’s true impact both in the United Kingdom and abroad—and shows that full reproductive rights are yet to be won. In the United Kingdom, anti-abortion campaigners attack women’s rights under existing law. Elsewhere women must cross borders or buy pills online, while in the United States—as well as in Ireland, Poland, and nations across Latin America—harsh restrictions on abortion are provoking increased resistance. Highlighting ongoing debates over decriminalization, Orr calls for an abortion provision fit for the twenty-first century.

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Judith Orr has decades of experience campaigning and writing on women’s rights and abortion. A native of Northern Ireland, where abortion is effectively illegal, she is an elected member of the executive committee of the UK Abortion Rights Campaign.

Judith Orr has decades of experience campaigning and writing on women’s rights and abortion. She grew up in Northern Ireland where abortion is effectively illegal. She is an elected member of the executive committee of the national Abortion Rights campaign.

As a journalist, she reported from Cairo’s Tahrir Square during the Egyptian Revolution, in particular highlighting the role of women in the struggle. She has written two previous books, Marxism and Women’s Liberation and Sexism and the System, and has spoken on her work internationally including in Canada, Germany, Austria, South Korea, Ireland and Turkey.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Policy Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1447339118
• ISBN 13: 9781447339113
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 224
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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