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Thorny entanglements: feminism, eugenics and the Abortion Law Reform Association's (ALRA) campaign for safe, accessible abortion in Britain, 1936-1967.
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January 2024
The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University Park, Pennsylvania, 16802-1503, US and the University of Johannesburg, Department of History.
For the past two decades anti-abortionists in the Global North have been aggressively instrumentalising disability in order to undermine women's social autonomy, asserting, falsely, there is an insuperable conflict between disability rights and reproductive rights. The utilisation of disability in struggles over abortion access is not new, it has a history dating back to the interwar era. Indeed, decades before anti-abortionists' campaign, feminists invoked disability to expand access to safe abortion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImpact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Prevalence of MTP Cases and Their Clinicodemographic Profile in India: A Retrospective Multicentric Study.
J Obstet Gynaecol India
December 2023
Obstetrics and Gynecology, Melaka Manipal Medical College, MAHE, Manipal. 88, Sai Radha Green Valley, Parampali, Udupi, Manipal, Karnataka 576104 India.
Background: During the Covid-19 pandemic, reproductive health of women was disproportionately affected due to difficult access to safe abortion and contraceptive services. This study aims to assess the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the prevalence of MTP cases and to find out the clinicodemographic profiles of women undergoing MTP during three Covid-waves in different hospitals-Government and private sectors in India.
Methods: This retrospective multicentric cohort study was conducted during three Covid-19 pandemic waves.
Attitudes and Practices Toward Sex-Selective Abortion in an Urban District of Nepal: Findings From a Cross-Sectional Study.
Asia Pac J Public Health
January 2024
School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, VIC, Australia.
Nepal, a country with deeply ingrained patriarchal values and culture, has limited evidence regarding the practices of sex selection and sex-selective abortion. This study aimed to investigate the attitudes and practices surrounding sex-selective abortion (SSA) and the factors associated with it. A cross-sectional study design was used to collect data from 320 women between the ages of 15 and 49, who had at least one child under the age of 5 and lived in the Bhaktapur district, Nepal.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF"A Vigorous Campaign against Abortion": Views of American Leaders of Eugenics v. Supreme Court Distortions.
J Law Med Ethics
December 2023
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY, ATLANTA, GA, USA.
The Supreme Court decided in 2019. Justice Clarence Thomas's opinion in the case claimed there was a direct connection between the legalization of abortion, in the late 20th Century, and the beginnings of the birth control movement a full three quarters of a century earlier. "Many eugenicists," Thomas argued, "supported legalizing abortion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Eugenic abortion: Between prenatal diagnosis and uninformed consent].
Cuad Bioet
November 2023
Departamento de Filosofía del Derecho y Política. Universitat de València. Facultad de Derecho, Edificio Departamental, Avenida de los Naranjos, 2, despacho 4E07, 46022, València.
The so-called ″eugenic″ abortion has an extraordinary differential nuance compared to the other legally established modalities of abortion, which is specified in the way the woman's decision is formed, which is not prior, but a consequence of medical information received about the foetus; a decision, moreover, in which there is a clear ″discriminatory″ component, since the abortion is produced exclusively because of the disability of the foetus. This uniqueness requires attention to the context in which eugenic decisions are made, because they involve three fundamental elements which, depending on how they are made, may or may not lead to abortion: firstly, the opportunity to carry out certain prenatal tests in the absence of risk factors. Secondly, the enormous responsibility of health professionals in informing parents about the results of a prenatal test.
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