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About Abortion

Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America

Carol Sanger

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$29.95 • £26.95 • €27.95

ISBN 9780674737723

Publication Date: 03/27/2017

320 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

15 halftones

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Carol Sanger is the Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.

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At the Boston Globe, read Carol Sanger’s grim warning about the Dobbs decision: “once privacy is discarded as a constitutional right, other rights derived from privacy are vulnerable”
At Jezebel, read Professor Sanger’s analysis of the legal origins of 2019 draconian antiabortion legislation in the 1992 Supreme Court decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which, rather than overturning Roe v. Wade, “dismantled” it
At Vice, read a 2018 thought experiment in which the author discusses with Sanger and other experts how a reversal of Roe v. Wade and a return to the broad outlawing of abortions throughout the United States would play out for Americans over the immediate, medium, and long term
On the NBC News feature Think, watch Sanger explain why overturning Roe v. Wade—and thus losing the demographic-uniting force of anti-abortion belief—might end up being a bad move for the Republican Party
In the New York Times, read Sanger’s observation that in addition to willfully ignoring decades of stare decisis, a conservative-majority Supreme Court reversal of Roe v. Wade would destroy Republican political access to a “super fuel that energizes the right”
Read an Irish Times story, featuring Sanger, on the push in Ireland to overturn that country’s abortion ban
In the wake of the Sutherland Springs mass shooting, read Sanger’s comments to the New York Times on the legal personhood of a fetus in cases of homicide

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