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Reproductive Laws for the 1990s

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Sherrill Cohen

    1. Women’s Rights Litigation Clinic, Rutgers University School of Law-Newark, USA

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  2. Nadine Taub

    1. Women’s Rights Litigation Clinic, Rutgers University School of Law-Newark, USA

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. The Social Context for Reproductive Laws

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Sherrill Cohen, Nadine Taub
      Pages 3-10

  3. Reproduction and Access to Health Care: A Legislator’s View

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Reproduction and Access to Health Care

      • George Miller
      Pages 13-20

  4. Society and Reproduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Reproductive Laws, Women of Color, and Low-Income Women

      • Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson
      Pages 23-67

    3. Reproductive Technology and Disability

      • Adrienne Asch
      Pages 69-124

  5. Reproductive Policy Position Papers and Commentaries for the 1990s

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Prenatal and Neonatal Technology, Abortion, and Birth

      1. Time Limits on Abortion
        • Nan D. Hunter
        Pages 129-153
      2. Prenatal Screening
        • Mary Sue Henifin, Ruth Hubbard, Judy Norsigian
        Pages 155-183
      3. Fetus as Patient
        • Janet Gallagher
        Pages 185-235
      4. “Hard Cases” and Reproductive Rights
        • Jeannie I. Rosoff
        Pages 237-240
      5. Disability Rights Perspectives on Reproductive Technologies and Public Policy
        • Deborah Kaplan
        Pages 241-247
      6. The Fetus is a Patient
        • Alan R. Fleischman
        Pages 249-257
      7. Reconciling Offspring and Maternal Interests during Pregnancy
        • John A. Robertson
        Pages 259-274

    3. Reproductive Choice: Hazards and Interference

      1. Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace
        • Joan E. Bertin
        Pages 277-305
      2. Interference with Reproductive Choice
        • Nancy Gertner
        Pages 307-328
      3. An Attorney General’s Outlook
        • Robert Abrams
        Pages 329-330
      4. The View from Capitol Hill
        • Edmund D. Cooke Jr., Sally J. Kenney
        Pages 331-339
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About this book

The Project on Reproductive Laws for the 1990s began in 1985 with the realization that reports of scientific developments and new technologies were stimulating debates and discussions among bioethicists and policymakers, and that women had little part in those discussions either as participants or as a group with interests to be considered. With the help of a planning grant from the Rutgers University Institute for Research on Women, the Women's Rights Litigation Clinic at Rutgers University Law School-Newark held a planning meeting that June attended by approximately 20 theorists and activists in the area of reproductive rights. Project purposes, methods, and general shape took form at the meeting. Two goals have characterized the Project's work since then: first, to generate discussion, debate, and, where possible, consensus among those committed to reproductive autonomy and gender equality as to how best to respond to the questions raised by re­ ported advances in reproductive and neonatal technology and new modes of reproduction; and second, to ensure that those shaping reproductive law and policy appreciate the ramifications of these developments for gender equality. In meeting this twofold agenda, the Project focused on six areas: time limits on abortion; prenatal screening; fetus as patient; reproductive hazards in the workplace; interference with reproductive choice; and alternative modes of reproduction. The Project identified individuals to take respon­ sibility for drafting model legislation and position papers in the six areas (for the drafters, see the Appendix).

Reviews

"A timely topic of concern to all Americans...well argued, cogent, and... persuasive... An excellent sourcebook on the ethical questions that [society] must confront if [it is] to continue to develop and use new reproductive technologies." -Choice

Editors and Affiliations

  • Women’s Rights Litigation Clinic, Rutgers University School of Law-Newark, USA

    Sherrill Cohen, Nadine Taub

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reproductive Laws for the 1990s

  • Editors: Sherrill Cohen, Nadine Taub

  • Series Title: Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3710-5

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Rutgers, The State University 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89603-157-9Published: 23 December 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-89603-175-3Published: 23 December 1988

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-3710-5Published: 01 December 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 472

  • Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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