RT Book
T1 Policing the womb: invisible women and the criminalization of motherhood
A1 Goodwin, Michele 1970-
LA English
PP Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY, USA Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia New Delhi, India Singapore
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1695008162
AB Policing the Womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the health of their pregnancies. The horrific results include women giving birth while shackled in leg irons, in solitary confinement, and even delivering in prison toilets. In some states, pregnancy has become a bargaining chip with prosecutors offering reduced sentences in exchange for women agreeing to be sterilized. The author shows how prosecutors may abuse laws and infringe women's rights in the process, sometimes with the complicity of medical providers who disclose private patient information to law enforcement. Often the women most affected are poor and of color. This timely book brings to light how the unrestrained efforts to punish and police women's bodies have led to the United States being the deadliest country in the developed world to be pregnant.
CN 342.08/5
SN 9781139343244
K1 Reproductive Rights : United States
K1 Pregnant women : Civil rights : United States
K1 Fetus : Legal status, laws, etc : United States
K1 Maternal and infant welfare : Law and legislation : United States
K1 Reproductive rights ; United States
K1 Pregnant women ; Civil rights ; United States
K1 Fetus ; Legal status, laws, etc ; United States
K1 Maternal and infant welfare ; Law and legislation ; United States
K1 USA : Schwangere : Rechtsstellung : Schwangerschaftsabbruch : Kriminalisierung : Fortpflanzung : Rechtspolitik
K1 eBook-Cambridge-Gesamt-EBA-2024
DO 10.1017/9781139343244