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Closets, Standards, Abortion: A Reply To Professor Pozen, Carol Sanger
Closets, Standards, Abortion: A Reply To Professor Pozen, Carol Sanger
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I am grateful for David Pozen's thoughtful observations regarding About Abortion. They have sharpened my understanding of how to think about the problem of abortion – or more accurately, about how abortion is kept problematic – as a matter of law and of social practice. I invoke the word "problematic" to describe the cultural setting in which abortion sits: although the procedure is legal, common, and safe, it is often treated as though it were not legal, or barely so; not common, except perhaps for women and girls who have nothing to do with you; and not at all …
The Abortion Closet (With A Note On Rules And Standards), David E. Pozen
The Abortion Closet (With A Note On Rules And Standards), David E. Pozen
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An enormous amount of information and insight is packed into Carol Sanger's About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First Century America. The book is anchored in post-1973 American case law. Yet it repeatedly incorporates examples and ideas from popular culture, prior historical periods, moral philosophy, feminist theory, medicine, literature and the visual arts, and more.