Making Women Pay: The Hidden Costs of Fetal Rights
Making Women Pay: The Hidden Expenditure of Fetal Rights Books
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Once backed primarily by anti-abortion activists, fetal rights claims are now promoted by a wide range of interest groups in American society. Government and corporate policies to define and enforce fetal rights have become usual. These developments affect all women–pregnant or not–because women are considered “potentially pregnant” for much of their lives. In her powerful and vital book, Rachel Roth brings a new perspective to the debate over fetal rights. She clearly delineates the risk to women’s equality posed by the new concept of “maternal-fetal conflict,” an thought central to the fetal rights movement in which women and fetuses are seen as having interests that are diametrically different.
Roth starts by placing fetal rights politics in historical and comparative context and by tracing the emergence of the notion of fetal rights. Hostile to a backdrop of gripping tales about actual women, she reviews the difficulties fetal rights claims make for women in the areas of employment, health care, and drug and alcohol regulation. She looks at court cases and state legislation over a period of two decades beginning in 1973, the year of the Roe v. Wade choice legalizing abortion. Her exhaustive research shows how judicial decisions and broadcast policies that grant fetuses rights tend to displace women as claimants, as recipients of needed services, and ultimately as citizens.
When a corporation, medical authority, or the state asserts or accepts rights claims on behalf of a fetus, the usual justification involves improving the opportunity of a healthy birth. This strategy, Roth persuasively argues, is not necessary to achieve the goal of a healthy birth, is often counterproductive to it, and everlastingly undermines women’s equal standing.
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Rachel Roth sheds intellectual and logical light on some highly emotional issues. Her book covers topics such as women’s employment, citizenship, and individual rights. This book does not ponder the moral question of abortion, but rather it points out the price women must pay and the burdon they bear during pregnacy. Women no loger have control over their bodies and in some cases are forced into unwanted medical procedures. This book should be read by all because it well documented and shows how society puts more importance on the fetus and less on the woman. But, I sometimes found this book to get a small repetative in the thought it was conveying.
Rating: 4 / 5