Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood (Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century) (Volume 10) - Softcover

Howard, Grace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520391071 ISBN 13: 9780520391079

Publisher: University of California Press, 2024

Synopsis

Decades before the overturning of Roe v. Wade, pregnant people faced arrest and prosecution for supposed crimes against the fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses they gestated. The Pregnancy Police investigates the legal arguments undergirding these prosecutions and sheds much-needed light on the networks of health-care providers, social workers, and legal personnel participating in this ongoing surveillance and punishment of pregnant people.

Drawing on detailed analyses of legislation, statements from prosecutors and law enforcement, and records from over a thousand arrest cases, Grace E. Howard traces the long history of state attempts to regulate and control people who have the capacity for pregnancy—from the early twentieth century's white supremacist eugenics to the end of Roe and the ever-increasing criminalization of abortion across the United States. 
 

About this title

About the Author

Grace Howard is Associate Professor of Justice Studies at San José State University.

From the Back Cover

"The Pregnancy Police is a tour de force, offering an insightful analysis of the rampant criminalization of pregnancy and pregnant people. Grace Howard skillfully reveals the many ways the pregnancy police are all around us—watching, reporting, and bringing harm to people seen as less than fully human because they have uteruses. The book is a brilliant addition to the reproductive justice literature."—Monica J. Casper, author of Babylost: Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z

"More and more people are paying attention to the criminalization of pregnancy in the aftermath of the reversal of Roe v. Wade. The Pregnancy Police will be a book that people must cite when discussing the phenomenon."—Khiara M. Bridges, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520391071
• ISBN 13: 9780520391079
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 295