Author:
Ehrlich, J. Shoshanna, author.
ImprintSanta Barbara, California : Praeger, An imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2019]
Descriptionxii, 217 pages ; 24 cm
Note:"Making their bodies dens of murder" : the physicians' 19th-century campaign to criminalize abortion -- The evolving legal status of abortion -- The crisis pregnancy centers and the roots of the contemporary abortion regret narrative -- Beyond the crisis pregnancy centers : regret moves from the margins to the center of the antiabortion movement -- Protecting women for their own good : the reemergence of legal paternalism -- Methods appendix.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-209) and index.
Note:"Abortion Regret" explores the emergence and consolidation of the anti-abortion movement's paternalistic efforts to 'protect" women from abortion regret. It begins by examining the 19th-century physicians' campaign to criminalize abortion and traces the contours of the women-protective abortion regret narrative through to the 21st century." --Book cover.
