Policing the womb : invisible women and the criminalization of motherhood

Title Policing the womb : invisible women and the criminalization of motherhood
Names Goodwin, Michele.
Book Number DB124263
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Books
Annotation "[This book] 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 to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the health of their pregnancies. The horrific results include women giving birth while shackled in leg irons, in solitary confinement, and even delivering in prison toilets. In some states, pregnancy has become a bargaining chip with prosecutors offering reduced sentences in exchange for women agreeing to be sterilized. The author shows how prosecutors may abuse laws and infringe women's rights in the process, sometimes with the complicity of medical providers who disclose private patient information to law enforcement. Often the women most affected are poor and of color. This timely book brings to light how the unrestrained efforts to punish and police women's bodies have led to the United States being the deadliest country in the developed world to be pregnant"-- Publisher's website -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Narrator Eller, Robin.
Local Subject Constitutional & administrative law - 342
Sociology - SOC
Medicine & Health - MED
Medicine - Specific Conditions - MES
History - United States - HUS
History, U.S.- 21st Century - HUF
The Law & Legal Rights - LAW
Politics - POL
Conservative Political Philosophy - PCO
Liberal Political Philosophy - PLI
Exclusion - Female Narrator - FN
Exclusion - Long Book - LO
LC Subject Reproductive rights - United States
Pregnant women - Civil rights - United States
Pregnant women - Legal status, laws, etc - United States
Fetus - Legal status, laws, etc - United States
Maternal and infant welfare - Law and legislation - United States
Women's rights - United States
Fetus
Pregnant women
United States of America
Pregnancy
Women's rights
Reproductive justice
Nonfiction
Call Number 342.085 ANF
Language English
Original Publication Reissue of: 2023 9798212278607 2023
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