Feminist Judgments: Reproductive Justice Rewritten (Feminist Judgment Series: Rewritten Judicial Opinions) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108442358 ISBN 13: 9781108442350

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Reproductive justice (RJ) is a pivotal movement that supplants the language and limitations of reproductive rights. RJ's tenets are that women have the human rights to decide if or when they'll become pregnant, whether to carry a pregnancy to term, and to parent the children they have in safe and healthy environments. Recognizing the importance of the rights at stake when the law addresses parenting and procreation, the authors in this book re-imagine judicial opinions that address the law's treatment of pregnancy and parenting. The cases cover topics such as forced sterilization, pregnancy discrimination, criminal penalties for women who take illegal drugs while pregnant, and state funding for abortion. Though some of the re-imagined cases come to the same conclusions as the originals, each rewritten opinion analyzes how these cases impact the most vulnerable populations, including people with disabilities, poor women, and women of color.

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About the Author

Kimberly Mutcherson is Dean and Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School in Camden. She is an expert in reproductive justice and the law and the 2013 recipient of a Center for Reproductive Rights Innovation in Scholarship Award. She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. from Columbia Law School.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108442358
• ISBN 13: 9781108442350
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 402
• Editor: Mutcherson Kimberly M.