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In her powerful and important book, Rachel Roth brings a new perspective to the debate over fetal rights. She clearly delineates the threat to women's equality posed by the new concept of "maternal-fetal conflict, " an idea central to the fetal rights movement in which women and fetuses are seen as having interests that are diametrically opposed

Analyzes how courts participate in the social construction of fetal rights in the areas of pregnant women's medical treatment & drug & alcohol use. Women are forced to bear the costs of making fetal rights real. It is concluded that social policy that empowers women will serve fetuses as well. 51 References. Adapted from the source document.

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The involvement of grassroots activist groups in the production of knowledge used to challenge or inform abortion policy remains underexplored. Despite this, modes of abortion activism which incorporate knowledge production activities are increasingly common. In this article, we propose the term 'evidence-based abortion activism' to describe knowledge production activities by activist groups, which aim to influence abortion policy and provision and which advocate for the lived, embodied experiences of abortion-seekers as crucial forms of knowledge for policymaking. As a case study, we present research by the Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC) – a grassroots organization which campaigns for free, safe, and legal abortion across Ireland – analysing the experiences of those who have accessed or attempted to access abortion care in the Republic of Ireland since legal services were made available there in January 2019. This article explores one sub-section of ARC's data, relating to the strikingly negative experiences of abortion-seekers attempting to access care between ten and twelve weeks in Irish hospitals: a thus far underexplored aspect of abortion experience in the Republic of Ireland. We argue that evidence-based abortion activism such as that carried out by ARC is important, not only because it provides a method for activists to attempt to influence abortion policy and provision but also because it creates space for forms of evidence which are epistemologically and politically 'unruly' in political debate and policy discussions. Specifically, ARC's model of evidence-based abortion activism argues that the embodied testimonies of abortion-seekers themselves must be fully integrated and considered in policymaking to improve the material experience of abortion-seekers.

Interrupted Life is a gripping collection of writings by and about imprisoned women in the United States, a country that jails a larger percentage of its population than any other nation in the world. This eye-opening work brings together scores of voices from both inside and outside the prison system including incarcerated and previously incarcerated women, their advocates and allies, abolitionists, academics, and other analysts. In vivid, often highly personal essays, poems, stories, reports, and manifestos, they offer an unprecedented view of the realities of women's experiences as they try to sustain relations with children and family on the outside, struggle for healthcare, fight to define and achieve basic rights, deal with irrational sentencing systems, remake life after prison; and more. Together, these powerful writings are an intense and visceral examination of life behind bars for women, and, taken together, they underscore the failures of imagination and policy that have too often underwritten our current prison system