Making Women Pay : The Hidden Costs of Fetal Rights, Hardcover by Roth, Rache...

by Rachel Roth

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Making Women Pay : The Hidden Costs of Fetal Rights, Hardcover by Roth, Rachel, ISBN 0801436079, ISBN-13 9780801436079, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Once backed primarily by anti-abortion activists, fetal rights claims are now promoted by a wide range of interest groups in American society. Government and corporate policies to define and enforce fetal rights have become commonplace. These developments affect all women—pregnant or not—because women are considered "potentially pregnant" for much of their lives. In her powerful and important book, Rachel Roth brings a new perspective to the debate over fetal rights. She clearly delineates the threat to women's equality posed by the new concept of "maternal-fetal conflict," an idea central to the fetal rights movement in which women and fetuses are seen as having interests that are diametrically opposed. Roth begins by placing fetal rights politics in historical and comparative context and by tracing the emergence of the notion of fetal rights. Against a backdrop of gripping stories about actual women, she reviews the difficulties fetal rights claims create for women in the areas of employment, health care, and drug and alcohol regulation. She looks at court cases and state legislation over a period of two decades beginning in 1973, the year of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. Her exhaustive research shows how judicial decisions and public policies that grant fetuses rights tend to displace women as claiman

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Year: 2000
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780801436079
• Condition: Fine

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