Policing Pregnant Bodies – From Ancient Greece to Post–Roe America
Policing Pregnant Bodies – From Ancient Greece to Post–Roe America Explores the historical roots of controversies over abortion, fetal personhood, miscarriage, and maternal mortality.On June 24,…
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Policing Pregnant Bodies – From Ancient Greece to Post–Roe America
Explores the historical roots of controversies over abortion, fetal personhood, miscarriage, and maternal mortality.On June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. This ruling, in the Dobbs v. Wade decision, asserting that the Constitution did not confer the right to abortion.
But it was also the product of a much longer history of archaic ideas about the relationship between pregnant people and the fetuses they carry.In Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America, historian Kathleen M. Jackson Women's Health case, was the culmination of a half-century of pro-life activism promoting the idea that fetuses are people and therefore entitled to the rights and protections that the Constitution guarantees. Crowther discusses the deeply rooted medical and philosophical ideas that continue to reverberate in the