Awards

• "Winner of A 2000 Choice Magazine ""Outstanding Academic Title."
• Winner of A 2000 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title.
• Winner of A 2000 Choice Magazine ""Outstanding Academic Title.

Overview

When a corporation, medical authority or the state asserts or accepts rights claims on behalf of a foetus, the usual justification involves improving the chance of a healthy birth. This strategy, Roth persuasively argues, is not necessary to achieve the goal of a healthy birth, is often counterproductive to it and always undermines women's equal standing.

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Reviews

Against a backdrop of gripping stories about actual women's legal experiences. . . this book reveals how judicial decisions and public policies that grant fetal rights tend to displace women's rights. . . Comprehensive. -Janet Gellman, Banana Slug Bulletin, Spring 2001

Rachel Roth provides an exhaustive study of judicial and legislative actions regarding fetal rights between 1973 and 1992. Her analysis surpasses previous treatments of the topic by providing a more thorough account of state actions and by developing an innovative theoretical approach for assessing the costs of fetal rights concepts to women's employment, citizenship, and freedom. Roth's cogent analysis makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the political implications of this highly charged issue. Carole McCann, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Author Information

Rachel Roth is a Research Fellow at Ibis Reproductive Health in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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