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Homologizing Pregnancy And Motherhood: A Consideration Of Abortion, Julia E. Hanigsberg Nov 1995

Homologizing Pregnancy And Motherhood: A Consideration Of Abortion, Julia E. Hanigsberg

Michigan Law Review

In this essay I reconsider abortion in order to bridge what initially seem to be two opposing frameworks: first, the conception of abortion as an issue of women's bodily integrity and liberty, and second, the acknowledgement of the existence and meaning of intrauterine life. The abortion choice is indeed deeply and necessarily tied to women's bodily integrity. I will discuss how taking away women's ability to control their decision not to become mothers can be severely damaging to their very sense of self, for this denial of decisionmaking divides women from their wombs and uses their wombs for a purpose …


Remarks Of A Former Welfare Recipient On Selected State Legislative Developments In Welfare, Nitza I. Vera Jan 1995

Remarks Of A Former Welfare Recipient On Selected State Legislative Developments In Welfare, Nitza I. Vera

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.