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Beyond Abortion - Roe v. Wadeand the Battle for Privacy (Hardcover)
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Beyond Abortion - Roe v. Wadeand the Battle for Privacy (Hardcover)
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For most Americans today, Roe v. Wade concerns just one thing: the
right to choose abortion. But the Supreme Court’s decision once
meant much more. The justices ruled that the right to privacy
encompassed the abortion decision. Grassroots activists and
politicians used Roe—and popular interpretations of it—as raw
material in answering much larger questions: Is there a right to
privacy? For whom, and what is protected? As Mary Ziegler
demonstrates, Roe’s privacy rationale attracted a wide range of
citizens demanding social changes unrelated to abortion. Movements
questioning hierarchies based on sexual orientation, profession,
class, gender, race, and disability drew on Roe to argue for an
autonomy that would give a voice to the vulnerable. So did
advocates seeking expanded patient rights and liberalized
euthanasia laws. Right-leaning groups also invoked Roe’s right to
choose, but with a different agenda: to attack government
involvement in consumer protection, social welfare, racial justice,
and other aspects of American life. In the 1980s, seeking to unify
a fragile coalition, the Republican Party popularized the idea that
Roe was a symbol of judicial tyranny, discouraging anyone from
relying on the decision to frame their demands. But Beyond Abortion
illuminates the untapped potential of arguments that still resonate
today. By recovering the diversity of responses to Roe, and the
legal and cultural battles it energized, Ziegler challenges readers
to come to terms with the uncomfortable fact that privacy belongs
to no party or cause.
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