Abortion and Common Sense,9781401059545

Abortion and Common Sense

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ISBN13: 9781401059545
ISBN10: 1401059546
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-10-01
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Table of Contents

Introduction 9(4)
Quick Quiz: Test Yourself 13(6)
PART I: PRIVATE LIVES
Regulating Our Fertility: Ancient Customs, Current Practices
19(31)
Setting the stage
20(3)
``. . . this whole business of sexual intercourse''
23(5)
From crocodile dung to RU 486: recipes for all seasons
28(12)
Hard choices
40(10)
Making the Abortion Decision
50(30)
What makes a pregnancy unwanted?
51(11)
Moral dilemmas and subversive acts
62(5)
If at first you don't succeed
67(13)
The Procedure
80(30)
The preliminaries
81(9)
Early procedures I: the ``abortion pill''
90(6)
Early procedures II: vacuum aspiration
96(3)
Early procedures III: dilation and curettage (D&C)
99(2)
Beyond the First Trimester
101(5)
Followup
106(4)
Psychological Consequences of Abortion and the Myth of Regret
110(27)
Reflections on the abortion experience
112(7)
What happens to women denied permission to terminate?
119(4)
Born unwanted: effects on children and families
123(14)
PART II: PUBLIC SETTINGS
When Is Abortion Against the Law and What Difference Does It Make?
137(30)
``With intent to procure''
141(5)
Permitted or denied? How the law decides
146(8)
Multiple layers, multiple interpretations
154(13)
Inside the Medical Profession
167(30)
Ambivalence and contradictions: medical practice before Roe v. Wade
169(11)
Whatever happened to hospital-based abortions?
180(7)
The rise of the free-standing clinic
187(10)
Private Opinion and Public Debate: Who Decides Who Decides?
197(30)
What the people think: the large middle/pro and the very small no
198(8)
The war of words: Whose rights? Who's right?
206(8)
The politics of legislative confrontation
214(13)
Why Safe Abortion is a Global Issue
227(8)
Chapter Notes 235(30)
A Sampling of Prochoice Organizations in the United States and Canada 265(10)
References 275

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