Roe v wade and the new jane crow: Reproductive rights in the age of mass incarceration

L.M. Paltrow

American Journal of Public Health, 2013, vol. 103, issue 1, 17-21

Abstract: All pregnant women, not just those who seek to end a pregnancy, have benefited from Roe v Wade. Today's system of mass incarceration makes it likely that if Roe is overturned women who have abortions will go to jail. Efforts to establish separate legal "personhood" for fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses, however, are already being used as the basis for the arrests and detentions of and forced interventions on pregnant women, including those who seek to go to term. Examination of these punitive actions makes clear that attacks on Roe threaten allpregnantwomennotonly with the loss of their reproductive rights and physical liberty but also with the loss of their status as full constitutional persons. Copyright © 2012 by the American Public Health Association®.

Keywords: article; criminal law; female; human; legal abortion; legal aspect; pregnancy; reproductive rights; statistics, Abortion, Legal; Criminal Law; Female; Humans; Pregnancy; Reproductive Rights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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