Research Handbook on International Abortion Law

Contents:

Preface xiv

PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on International Abortion Law 2
Mary Ziegler

PART II HISTORIES OF LIBERALIZATION
2 Health and heredity: abortion reform in Sweden in the 1930s and 1940s 22
Lena Lennerhed
3 Before Roe and Morgentaler: a comparative history of abortion politics
in the US and Canada from 1800 to 1970 39
Kelly Gordon and Paul Saurette
4 Unfinished business: the feminist legal framework for abortion and
ongoing struggle for reproductive justice in South Africa 61
Susanne M. Klausen

PART III THE PROMISE AND LIMITS OF DECRIMINALIZATION
5 Abortion law reform in Malawi: a case study in stakeholder
engagement, public education, and human rights advocacy 82
Godfrey Dalitso Kangaude, Chrispine Gwalawala Sibande, Susan Deller
Ross, and Michelle Xiao Liu
6 Abortion law in Thailand: a big step forward? 103
Ronnakorn Bunmee
7 Abortion in Australia: law, policy and the advancement of reproductive rights 124
Ronli Sifris

PART IV ABORTION IN POPULAR POLITICS
8 Access to abortion: comparative public policy in France and the United States 142
Jennifer Merchant
9 The transformation of abortion law in China 160
Ruby Lai Yuen Shan
10 Abortion and federalism: the Australian example 181
Kate Gleeson
11 Israel's abortion law and the paradox of a rightless access to pregnancy
terminations 202
Noya Rimalt

PART V MOVEMENTS AGAINST ABORTION
12 Abortion politics in Brazil: backlash and the antiabortion field renewal 222
Marta R. de Assis Machado
13 The international pro-life movement 243
Daniel K. Williams
14 Abortion law and illiberal courts: spotlight on Poland and Hungary 263
Agnieszka Bien-Kacala and Timea Drinoczi

PART VI RACE, SEX, RELIGION
15 Enhancing reproductive justice transnationally: an equality-based
approach to sex-selective abortion laws in India 284
Sital Kalantry and Meher Dev
16 Abortion, law and health in the Arab world 303
Irene Maffi and Liv Tonnessen
17 Abortion in Ecuador: overview of a collective struggle 321
Cristina Burneo Salazar

PART VII THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS
18 Beyond abortion decriminalization: human rights perspectives on the
role of law in creating enabling environments for abortion access 343
Payal K. Shah and Jihan Jacob
19 Abortion law in Europe: the promise and pitfalls of human rights and
transnational trade law in the face of criminalization with exceptions 374
Lucia Berro Pizzarossa, Tamara Hervey and Anniek de Ruijter
20 Engendering democracy and rights: the legalization of abortion in Argentina 394
Alicia Ely Yamin and Agustina Ramon Michel
21 Abortion, reform, and rights: tales from a small island 420
Fiona de Londras

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• Questões éticas: aborto e controle de natalidade
• Direito e sociedade
• Direito internacional
• Obras de referência

Abortion law; reproductive rights; health; and justice; pro-life movement; sexual and reproductive rights; abortion policy; reproduction and the law