It is increasingly implausible to speak of a purely domestic
abortion law, as the legal debates around the world draw on
precedents and influences of different national and regional
contexts. While the United States and Western Europe may have been
the vanguard of abortion law reform in the latter half of the
twentieth century, Central and South America are proving to be
laboratories of thought and innovation in the twenty-first century,
as are particular countries in Africa and Asia. Abortion Law in
Transnational Perspective offers a fresh look at significant
transnational legal developments in recent years, examining key
judicial decisions, constitutional texts, and regulatory reforms of
abortion law in order to envision ways ahead. The chapters
investigate issues of access, rights, and justice, as well as
social constructions of women, sexuality, and pregnancy, through
different legal procedures and regimes. They address the promises
and risks of using legal procedure to achieve reproductive justice
from different national, regional, and international vantage
points; how public and courtroom debates are framed within medical,
religious, and human rights arguments; the meaning of different
narratives that recur in abortion litigation and language; and how
respect for women and prenatal life is expressed in various legal
regimes. By exploring how legal actors advocate, regulate, and
adjudicate the issue of abortion, this timely volume seeks to build
on existing developments to bring about change of a larger order.
Contributors: Luis Roberto Barroso, Paola Bergallo, Rebecca J.
Cook, Bernard M. Dickens, Joanna N. Erdman, Lisa M. Kelly, Adriana
Lamackova, Julieta Lemaitre, Alejandro Madrazo, Charles G. Ngwena,
Rachel Rebouche, Ruth Rubio-Marin, Sally Sheldon, Reva B. Siegel,
Veronica Undurraga, Melissa Upreti.
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