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The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood - Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century Grace E. Howard
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The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood - Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century
Grace E. Howard
Decades before the overturning of Roe v. Wade, pregnant people faced arrest and prosecution for supposed crimes against the fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses they gestated. The Pregnancy Police investigates the legal arguments undergirding these prosecutions and sheds much-needed light on the networks of healthcare providers, social workers, and legal personnel participating in this ongoing surveillance and punishment of pregnant people.
Drawing on detailed analyses of legislation, statements from prosecutors and law enforcement, and records from over a thousand arrest cases, Grace E. Howard traces the long history of state attempts to regulate and control people with the capacity for pregnancy-from the early twentieth century's white supremacist eugenics to the end of Roe and the ever-increasing criminalization of abortion across the United States.
310 pages, 5 b-w illustrations, 3 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 4, 2024 |
| ISBN13 | 9780520391062 |
| Publishers | University of California Press |
| Pages | 296 |
| Dimensions | 160 × 235 × 24 mm · 568 g |
