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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Fran Amery; Project Muse. |
ISBN: | 9781529204995 1529204992 9781529205367 1529205360 |
OCLC Number: | 1292424768 |
Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Mar 2021). |
Description: | 1 online resource (1 Online-Ressource vi, 228 Seiten) |
Series Title: | Book collections on Project MUSE. |
Responsibility: | by Fran Amery. |
Abstract:
Examining the changing pluralities of contemporary abortion debate in Britain, this innovative and important book shows why it is necessary to move beyond an understanding of abortion politics as characterised in binary terms by 'pro-choice' versus 'pro-life'. Amery traces the evolution of political and parliamentary discourses from the passage of the Abortion Act in the 1960s to the present day, and argues that the current provision of abortion in Britain rests on assumptions about medical authority over women's reproductive decision-making which are unsustainable. She explores new arguments around sex-selective abortion, disability rights, pre-abortion counselling and the push for decriminalization, and radically reconceptualizes the debate to account for these new battlegrounds in abortion politics.
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