Policing the womb : invisible women and the criminalization of motherhood /

Policing the womb : invisible women and the criminalization of motherhood / Michele Goodwin, University of California, Irvine.

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Publisher's description: Policing the womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goodwin, Michele (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Reproductive rights > United States.
Pregnant women > Civil rights > United States.
Fetus > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Maternal and infant welfare > Law and legislation > United States.
Fetus > Legal status, laws, etc.
Maternal and infant welfare > Law and legislation.
Reproductive rights.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Pregnancy and state power : prosecuting fetal endangerment
  • Creeping criminalization of pregnancy across the United States
  • Abortion law
  • Changing roles of doctors and nurses : hospital snitches and police informants
  • Revisiting the fiduciary relationship
  • Creating criminals : race, stereotypes, and collateral damage
  • The pregnancy penalty : when the state gets it wrong
  • Policing beyond the border
  • Lessons for law and society : a reproductive justice New Deal or Bill of Rights.

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