Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective : : Cases and Controversies /

Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective : : Cases and Controversies / / ed. by Bernard M. Dickens, Joanna N. Erdman, Rebecca J. Cook.

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It is increasingly implausible to speak of a purely domestic abortion law, as the legal debates around the world draw on precedents and influences of different national and regional contexts. While the United States and Western Europe may have been the vanguard of abortion law reform in the latter h...

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MitwirkendeR:
Barroso, Luís Roberto,
Bergallo, Paola,
Cook, Rebecca J.,
Dickens, Bernard M.,
Erdman, Joanna N.,
Kelly, Lisa M.,
Lamačková, Adriana,
Lemaitre, Julieta,
Madrazo, Alejandro,
Ngwena, Charles G.,
Rebouché, Rachel,
Rubio-Marín, Ruth,
Sheldon, Sally,
Siegel, Reva B.,
Undurraga, Verónica,
Upreti, Melissa,
HerausgeberIn:
Cook, Rebecca J.,
Dickens, Bernard M.,
Erdman, Joanna N.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (480 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Constitutional Values and Regulatory Regimes
  • 1. The Constitutionalization of Abortion
  • 2. Abortion in Portugal: New Trends in European Constitutionalism
  • 3. Women's Rights in the Abortion Decision of the Slovak Constitutional Court
  • 4. Proportionality in the Constitutional Review of Abortion Law
  • 5. A Functionalist Approach to Comparative Abortion Law119
  • Part II. Procedural Justice and Liberal Access
  • 6. The Procedural Turn: Abortion at the European Court of Human Rights
  • 7. The Struggle Against Informal Rules on Abortion in Argentina
  • 8. Reforming African Abortion Laws and Practice: The Place of Transparency
  • Part III. Framing and Claiming Rights
  • 9. The Medical Framework and Early Medical Abortion in the U.K.: How Can a State Control Swallowing?
  • 10. The Right to Conscience
  • 11. Catholic Constitutionalism on Sex, Women, and the Beginning of Life
  • 12. Bringing Abortion into the Brazilian Public Debate: Legal Strategies for Anencephalic Pregnancy
  • 13. Toward Transformative Equality in Nepal: The Lakshmi Dhikta Decision
  • Part IV. Narratives and Social Meaning
  • 14. Reckoning with Narratives of Innocent Suffering in Transnational Abortion Litigation
  • 15. Narratives of Prenatal Personhood in Abortion Law
  • 16. Stigmatized Meanings of Criminal Abortion Law
  • Table of Cases
  • Table of Legislation, Treaties, and Other Relevant Instruments
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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