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A Woman's Life Is a Human Life - My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice (Hardcover)
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A Woman's Life Is a Human Life - My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice (Hardcover)
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Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade,
this urgent book from historian Felicia Kornbluh reveals two
movement victories in New York that forever changed the politics of
reproductive rights nationallyBefore there was a "Jane Roe," the
most important champions of reproductive rights were ordinary
people working in their local communities. In A Woman's Life Is a
Human Life, historian Felicia Kornbluh delivers the untold story of
everyday activists who defined those rights and achieved them, in
the years immediately before and after Roe v. Wade made abortion
legal under federal law.A Woman's Life Is a Human Life is the story
of two movements in New York that transformed the politics of
reproductive rights: the fight to decriminalize abortion and the
fight against sterilization abuse, which happened
disproportionately in communities of color and was central to an
activism that was about the right to bear children, as well as not
to. Each initiative won key victories that relied on people power
and not on the federal courts. Their histories cast new light on
Roe and constitutional rights, on the difficulty and importance of
achieving a truly inclusive feminism, and on reproductive politics
today.This is a book full of drama. From dissident Democrats who
were the first to try reforming abortion laws and members of a
rising feminist movement who refashioned them, to the nation's
largest abortion referral service established by progressive
Christian and Jewish clergy, to Puerto Rican activists who demanded
community accountability in healthcare and introduced sterilization
abuse to the movement's agenda, and Black women who took the cause
global, A Woman's Life Is a Human Life documents the diverse ways
activists changed the law and worked to create a world that would
support all people's reproductive choices.The first in-depth study
of a winning campaign against a state's abortion law and the first
to chronicle the sterilization abuse fight side-by-side with the
one for abortion rights, A Woman's Life Is a Human Life is rich
with firsthand accounts and previously unseen sources--including
those from Kornbluh's mother, who wrote the first draft of New
York's law decriminalizing abortion, and their across-the-hall
neighbor, Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias, a Puerto Rican doctor who
cofounded the movement against sterilization abuse. In this
dynamic, surprising, and highly readable history, Felicia Kornbluh
corrects the record to show how grassroots action overcame the odds
to create policy change--and how it might work today.
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