Abortion in the United States

The Moral and Legal Landscape
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-55423-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 80 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 280 g

This book explores the seismic shift brought about by the 2022 US Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which dramatically changed the constitutional standing of abortion decisions set in place by Roe v. Wade 50 years earlier. The authors describe the history of US Supreme Court’s decision-making around abortion and some of its attendant considerations, including the constitutional right to privacy, moral obligations to protect life, and determinations about when life begins.

When Dobbs was decided, legal control over abortion was returned to the states, resulting in wildly divergent access to abortion across the nation. As important, Dobbs raised a host of additional legal and moral questions that will no doubt be the focus of many future courtroom and legislative debates.

This text is designed for undergraduate students across a range of academic disciplines. It lays bare the complicated moral dimensions of the competing arguments about abortion and how these considerations have fared in legal decisions, so students can make sense of them for themselves.

Zielgruppe

General and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aseltine, Elyshia

Ekland Olson, Sheldon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Abortion's Shifting Landscape, Introduction, A General Framework: Dealing with Life Threatening Dilemmas, An Overview of Abortion in the United States, Public Opinion, Patterns in Use, Establishing the Constitutional Right to Privacy, Thalidomide, Rubella, and Abortion, A Bolt from the Blue: Roe v. Wade, The Power of Empathy: The Personhood of the Fetus, Dismantling Roe: Shifting Composition of the Supreme Court, Protests and Violent Opposition, Late Term Abortions, Determining Undue Burden, The Stage is Set for Dobbs, The Dobbs Decision, States Respond, Current Legal Status of Abortion in US States, Public Opinion on Abortion Post-Dobbs, Questions to be Answered, The Coming Years

Über Autor(innen)

Elyshia Aseltine is an associate professor at Towson University (TU) in Maryland. Her research focuses on racial inequalities and the criminal justice system. She is also the College of Liberal Arts Mitten Professor, the founding director of TU’s Fair Chance Higher Education initiative, and a 2019 Open Society Institute-Baltimore Community Fellow.

Sheldon Ekland-Olson is Rapoport Professor and Provost Emeritus at the University of Texas, Austin. He taught in the Department of Sociology, Law School, and Honors Programs. He was dean of the College of Liberal Arts for five years and Executive Vice President and Provost for eight years. He is the recipient of numerous university-wide and system-wide teaching awards. He is currently retired.