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The Politics of Abortion

1992

In the early years of the nineteenth century, the significance of quickening as a momentous event in pregnancy was attacked by religious, medical, and legal authorities alike, not the least because the threshold deter- mination of whether quickening had occurred was triggered by the word of the pregnant woman herself, and confirmed (or not) by a jury of matrons.9 The secular state's entry into the [...] Even more broadly, we must comprehend such meanings and practices if we are to understand the regulation and construction of the female body and subject, the emergence and politics of social movements, and the role of the state and law in the reproduction of 13 The Politics of Abortion patriarchal gender relations. [...] In doing so, it will highlight the important differ- ences between the discourses of liberalization and medicalization with which the state bounded the issue before Morgentaler and the terms of the prevailing public discourse evident in the parliamen- tary controversies recounted in the next chapter. [...] The Bourne case captures, in fact, all of the confusion plaguing the med- ical establishment.18 According to the court deciding the case, abor- tion was possible if the pregnancy threatened the life or health— even the mental health—of the woman. [...] The head of the Medical Association's delegation — finally pro- voked by incessant demands by the MPs that they address matters of morality—finally said the following: 28 Getting to Morgentaler Dr Aitken: Our position really is sort of summed up in the fact that we feel the rights of the living, the actual human being at the moment—basically the mother—override con- sideration of the rights of a p
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Authors

M. Janine Brodie

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-198) and index
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CaOOCEL
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
363.4/6/0971
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
20
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Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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ISBN
0195408667 9780195434682
LCCN
HQ767.5.C2
LCCN Item number
B76 1992eb
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CaBNVSL
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CaOTU
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1 electronic text (204 p.)
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Canada
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CaOOCEL
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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(CaBNVSL)slc00223337 (OCoLC)500909292 (CaOOCEL)432121
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
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CaOTU

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