Abortion Pills Go Global

Reproductive Freedom across Borders
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-520-39198-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 367 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 420 g

Reihe: Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century

An unprecedented, up-close look into the global self-managed abortion movement.

Abortion pills have made safe medication abortion possible for millions of people around the world, even in the most restrictive circumstances. In this timely book, Sydney Calkin illustrates the profound, transformative promise of these pills—which are safe, effective, and responsible for a sharp decline in maternal mortality. Abortion Pills Go Global demonstrates that the widespread practice of self-managed medication abortion makes it more difficult for countries to enforce oppressive abortion laws and less willing to do so.

Taking a bold and unique geographic approach, this book follows these pills as they are manufactured and transported by feminist activists from India to Ireland, Northern Ireland, Poland, and the United States. Calkin shows that the growing availability of abortion pills in places with restrictive laws means more people have access to self-managed healthcare. Abortion Pills Go Global looks ahead to see how the broader politics of abortion could shift in response to this global movement—one that looks not to laws for protection but to on-the-ground feminist mobilizations across borders.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Calkin, Sydney

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Abtreibung, Geburtenkontrolle: Soziale & Ethische Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. How Indian Abortion Pills Travel the Globe

2. Abortion Pills in US Clinics and Laws

3. How to Self-Manage Abortion in America

4. The Geography of Clandestine Abortion in Poland

5. Abortion Pills in the Polish Abortion Underground

6. Irish Abortions by Plane or Pill

7. Abortion Pills and Ireland’s 8th Amendment Referendum

8. From Criminalization to Decriminalization in Northern Ireland

9. Looking Forward

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sydney Calkin is Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London and coeditor of After Repeal: Re-thinking Abortion Politics.