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catalog abstract "For over twenty years the abortion debate has raged, with each side entrenched in unyielding positions. This book breaks the impasse by using pro-life premises to reach pro-choice conclusions. While it is commonly assumed that state protection of the fetus as a form of human life undermines women's reproductive rights, McDonagh instead illuminates how it is exactly such state protection of the fetus that strengthens, rather than weakens, not only women's right to an abortion, but even more significantly, women's ability to call on the state for abortion funding. McDonagh's approach, by bridging the divide between pro-life and pro-choice advocates, revolutionizes the abortion debate in a way that opens up a whole new avenue for resolving the abortion conflict and advancing women's rights. McDonagh reframes the abortion debate by locating the missing piece of the puzzle: the fetus as the cause of pregnancy. After exposing the myths on this subject, her exacting analysis presents the scientific and legal evidence that the ultimate source of pregnancy is the fetus. The central issue then becomes what the fetus, as an active agent, does to a woman's body during pregnancy, whether that pregnancy is wanted or not. McDonagh graphically describes the massive changes produced by the fetus when it takes over a woman's body. As such, pregnancy is best depicted not as a condition that women have a right to choose but rather as a condition to which they must have a right to consent. Abortion, therefore, does not rest on the intensely debated principle, stated in Roe, that women have a right to be free from state interference when choosing privately what to do with their own bodies. Instead, as McDonagh's book explains, abortion rights flow inevitably from women's more established right to consent to what another agent does to their body. Specifically, women have a right to resist an unwanted intrusion by a fetus as well as to receive help from the state to stop such an intrusion. Moving abortion rights from choice to consent has broad legal and cultural ramifications tapping into the very cornerstone of the American political system: consent.".
catalog contributor b10037826.
catalog created "1996.".
catalog date "1996".
catalog date "1996.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
catalog description "1. Where do we go from here -- 2. Immaculate pregnancy -- 3. Separating sex from pregnancy -- 4. Consent to pregnancy -- 5. Wrongful pregnancy -- 6. Abortion funding and due process -- 7. From due process to equal protection -- 8. Right to bodily access -- 9. The politics of consent.".
catalog description "After exposing the myths on this subject, her exacting analysis presents the scientific and legal evidence that the ultimate source of pregnancy is the fetus. The central issue then becomes what the fetus, as an active agent, does to a woman's body during pregnancy, whether that pregnancy is wanted or not. McDonagh graphically describes the massive changes produced by the fetus when it takes over a woman's body. As such, pregnancy is best depicted not as a condition that women have a right to choose but rather as a condition to which they must have a right to consent. Abortion, therefore, does not rest on the intensely debated principle, stated in Roe, that women have a right to be free from state interference when choosing privately what to do with their own bodies. Instead, as McDonagh's book explains, abortion rights flow inevitably from women's more established right to consent to what another agent does to their body. ".
catalog description "For over twenty years the abortion debate has raged, with each side entrenched in unyielding positions. This book breaks the impasse by using pro-life premises to reach pro-choice conclusions. While it is commonly assumed that state protection of the fetus as a form of human life undermines women's reproductive rights, McDonagh instead illuminates how it is exactly such state protection of the fetus that strengthens, rather than weakens, not only women's right to an abortion, but even more significantly, women's ability to call on the state for abortion funding. McDonagh's approach, by bridging the divide between pro-life and pro-choice advocates, revolutionizes the abortion debate in a way that opens up a whole new avenue for resolving the abortion conflict and advancing women's rights. McDonagh reframes the abortion debate by locating the missing piece of the puzzle: the fetus as the cause of pregnancy. ".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-270) and index.".
catalog description "Specifically, women have a right to resist an unwanted intrusion by a fetus as well as to receive help from the state to stop such an intrusion. Moving abortion rights from choice to consent has broad legal and cultural ramifications tapping into the very cornerstone of the American political system: consent.".
catalog extent "xiii, 280 p. ;".
catalog hasFormat "Breaking the abortion deadlock.".
catalog identifier "0195091418 (acid-free paper)".
catalog identifier "0195091426 (pbk. : acid-free paper)".
catalog isFormatOf "Breaking the abortion deadlock.".
catalog issued "1996".
catalog issued "1996.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
catalog relation "Breaking the abortion deadlock.".
catalog spatial "United States.".
catalog subject "1999 A-965".
catalog subject "363.4/6/0973 20".
catalog subject "Abortion Government policy United States.".
catalog subject "Abortion Law and legislation United States.".
catalog subject "Abortion Moral and ethical aspects.".
catalog subject "Abortion, Legal economics United States.".
catalog subject "Financing, Government legislation & jurisprudence United States.".
catalog subject "HQ 767.5.U5 M478b 1996".
catalog subject "HQ767.5.U5 M373 1996".
catalog subject "Human reproduction Moral and ethical aspects.".
catalog subject "Pregnancy Moral and ethical aspects.".
catalog subject "Pregnancy United States.".
catalog subject "Public Policy United States.".
catalog subject "Women's Rights legislation & jurisprudence United States.".
catalog subject "Women's rights United States.".
catalog tableOfContents "1. Where do we go from here -- 2. Immaculate pregnancy -- 3. Separating sex from pregnancy -- 4. Consent to pregnancy -- 5. Wrongful pregnancy -- 6. Abortion funding and due process -- 7. From due process to equal protection -- 8. Right to bodily access -- 9. The politics of consent.".
catalog title "Breaking the abortion deadlock : from choice to consent / Eileen L. McDonagh.".
catalog type "text".