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This volume explores the concept of Japanese reproductive rights and liberties in light of recent developments in disability studies. Masae Kato asks important questions about what constitutes personhood and how, in the twenty-first century, we come to understand eugenic abortion and other bioethical arguments. Tracing the origin and influence of the concept of a "right," the author places the term in local social and historical contexts in order to determine that it still carries overtones of Anglo-American philosophy, rather than universal truth. Digging deeply into Japanese debates on selective abortion, Women's Right? discusses how this charged term can be both de-Westernized and de-masculinized, especially in its appropriations by the Japanese women's movement and disability scholars. - Dit boek verkent het concept 'recht'. Hoe dit concept een rol heeft gespeeld in het veroorzaken van onenigheid en misvatting tussen bewegingen van gehandicapte mensen en vrouwen met betrekking tot de kwestie van selectieve abortus in Japan. Tegelijkertijd, probeert de schrijfster om het concept van recht te ontwesteren en te demasculiniseren door erover te theoretiseren hoe deze twee bewegingen de term interpreteerden, ondersteunden en in praktijk brachten. Zij laat ook zien dat het concept niet universeel is.

Why has postwar Japanese abortion policy been relatively progressive, while contraception policy has been relatively conservative? The Japanese government legalized abortion in 1948 but did not approve the pill until 1999. In this carefully researched study, Tiana Norgren argues that these contradictory policies flowed from very different historical circumstances and interest group configurations. Doctors and family planners used a small window of opportunity during the Occupation to legalize abortion, and afterwards, doctors and women battled religious groups to uphold the law. The pill, on the other hand, first appeared at an inauspicious moment in history. Until circumstances began to change in the mid-1980s, the pharmaceutical industry was the pill's lone champion: doctors, midwives, family planners, and women all opposed the pill as a potential threat to their livelihoods, abortion rights, and women's health.Clearly written and interwoven with often surprising facts about Japanese history and politics, Norgren's book fills vital gaps in the cross-national literature on the politics of reproduction, a subject that has received more attention in the European and American contexts. Abortion Before Birth Control will be a valuable resource for those interested in abortion and contraception policies, gender studies, modern Japanese history, political science, and public policy. This is a major contribution to the literature on reproductive rights and the role of civil society in a country usually discussed in the context of its industrial might

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Abortion and American Politics -- Abortion: A Concise and Contested History -- The Abortion Issue: The Search for an Analogue -- Conclusions -- 2 The Social Bases of Abortion Attitudes -- Attitudes Toward Legal Abortion: Methods of Analysis -- Abortion Attitudes: An Overview -- State Differences in Abortion Attitudes -- Group Differences in Abortion Attitudes -- Demographic Differences in Abortion Attitudes: Multivariate Analyses -- Conclusions -- 3 The Subjective Bases of Abortion Attitudes -- Ideological Self-Identification -- A Matter of Life and Death? -- Abortion and Gender Role Attitudes -- Attitudes Toward Parenthood and Female Employment -- Attitudes Toward Sexual Morality -- Putting Things Together: Multivariate Analyses -- Conclusions -- 4 Religion and Abortion Attitudes -- Religion and Abortion Attitudes Among Whites: Theological Traditions -- Denominational Preference and Abortion Attitudes Among Whites -- The Sources of Abortion Attitudes: White Evangelicals, Mainline Protestants, and Roman Catholics -- Religion and Abortion Attitudes Among African-Americans -- Religion and Abortion Attitudes Among American Jews -- Religion and Abortion Attitudes: A Comprehensive Model -- Conclusions -- 5 Who Is Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, and In Between? -- Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Supporters: An Overview -- Pro-Life Citizens -- Issue Divisions Among Pro-Life Citizens -- Pro-Choice Citizens -- Issue Groups Among Pro-Choice Supporters -- Situationalists -- Conclusions -- 6 The Electoral Politics of Abortion -- Abortion and Vote Decisions -- The Abortion Issue in Presidential Elections -- Abortion and Congressional Elections -- Abortion and State Electoral Politics After Webster -- Conclusions.

Sherri Finkbine flew to Sweden : abortion and disability in the early 1960s / Lena Lennerhed -- From Heathrow airport to Harley Street : the ALRA and the travel of non-resident women for abortion services in Britain / Christabelle Sethna -- The trans-Tasman abortion travel service : abortion services for New Zealand women in the 1970s / Hayley Brown -- All aboard the "abortion express" : geographic variability, domestic travel and the 1967 Abortion Act / Gayle Davis, Jane O'Neill, Clare Parker, and Sally Sheldon -- A double movement : the politics of reproductive mobility in Ireland / Mary Gilmartin and Sinead Kennedy -- Tales of mobility : women's travel and abortion services in a globalized Australia / Barbara Baird -- Don't mess with Texas : abortion policy Texas style / Lori Brown -- Trials and trails : the emergence of Canada's abortion refugees in Prince Edward Island / Cathrine Chambers, Colleen MacQuarrie, and Jo-Ann MacDonald -- Abortion travel and the cost of reproductive choice in Spain / Agata Ignaciuk -- "The import problem" : the travels of our bodies, ourselves, to Eastern Europe / Anna Bogic -- The illegal abortion underground, abortion tourism and the Catholic Church in Poland / Ewelina Ciaputa -- Brexit and reproductive healthcare : abortion access for women traveling to Britain, post-EU / Niklas Barke

"The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade stands as a historic victory for abortion-rights activists. But rather than serving as the coda to what had been a comparatively low-profile social conflict, the decision mobilized a wave of anti-abortion protests and ignited a heated struggle that continues to this day. Picking up the story in the contentious decades that followed Roe, The Street Politics of Abortion is the first book to consider the rise and fall of clinic-front protests through the 1980s and 1990s, the most visible and contentious period in U.S. reproductive politics. Joshua Wilson considers how street level protests lead to three seminal Court decisions--Planned Parenthood v. Williams, Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western N.Y., and Hill v. Colorado. The eventual demise of street protests via these cases taught anti-abortion activists the value of incremental institutional strategies that could produce concrete policy gains without drawing the public's attention. Activists on both sides ultimately moved--often literally--from the streets to fight in state legislative halls and courtrooms. At its core, the story of clinic-front protests is the story of the Christian Right's mercurial assent as a force in American politics. As the conflict moved from the street, to the courts, and eventually to legislative halls, the competing sides came to rely on a network of lawyers and professionals to champion their causes. New Christian Right institutions--including Pat Robertson's American Center for Law and Justice and the Regent University Law School, and Jerry Falwell's Liberty University School of Law--trained elite activists for their 'front line' battles in government. Wilson demonstrates how the abortion-rights movement, despite its initial success with Roe, has since faced continuous challenges and difficulties, while the anti-abortion movement continues to gain strength in spite of its losses"--Provided by publisher

Takes a look at the political and psychological possibilities and necessity for abortion counseling. This book tackles both sides of this issue to reach an understanding of what women face when they make this choice. It helps understand emotional and cognitive competencies of women and teenage girls facing the decision to terminate a pregnancy.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 'Women's Legal Rights to Abortion: Watch Out!' -- Part 1 Abortion in Historical Context -- 1 Debating Therapeutic Abortion in Nineteenth-Century Belgium -- 2 The 'Birth' of a Modern Nation: A Brief History of Women's Access to Abortion in China -- Part 2 Abortion, Politics, and Social Policy -- 3 Abortion: The Contraception Paradox in England -- 4 A Bilingual Analysis of Canada's Bill C-484: The Unborn Victims of Crime Act -- Part 3 Abortion and Legislation -- 5 Birth Control Policies and Abortion Issues in Post-Communist Russia -- 6 Abortion Law in Italy: A Pluralist Legislation Lacking Effectiveness? -- Part 4 Abortion, Culture, and Traditions -- 7 Rising Tides, Ebbing Tides: Appeasement Rituals Around Perinatal Death in Contemporary Japan -- 8 The Evolving Personhood of the Foetus in Taiwan Within the Transnational Flow -- Part 5 The Role of Healthcare Professionals -- 9 Abortion Versus Contraception: The Roots of a Terminological Professional Debate -- 10 Abortion in Times of the Covid-19 Pandemic -- Index.

"A collection of essays examining the connections between abortion, adoption, and commercial surrogacy in the global context of reproductive politics in the neoliberal age, interrogating how contemporary understandings of the construction of family expand choices for some women while limiting choices for others"--