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Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective: Cases & Controversies
Edited by Rebecca J. Cook, Joanna N. Erdman, and Bernard M. Dickens, U Penn
Press, 2014, 480 pages Hardcover or ebook. Available
at University of Pennsylvania Press.
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Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective: Cases and Controversies offers a fresh look at significant transnational legal developments
in recent years, examining key judicial decisions, constitutional texts, and
regulatory reforms of abortion law in order to envision ways ahead.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Rebecca J.
Cook, Joanna N. Erdman, and Bernard M. Dickens
Part I. Constitutional Values and Regulatory Regimes
The
Constitutionalization of Abortion, Reva B. Siegel
Abortion
in Portugal: New Trends in European Constitutionalism, Ruth
Rubio-Marín
Women’s
Rights in the Abortion Decision of the Slovak Constitutional Court, Adriana
Lamacková
Proportionality in the Constitutional Review of Abortion Law, Verónica
Undurraga
A Functionalist Approach to Comparative Abortion Law, Rachel Rebouché
Part II. Procedural Justice and Liberal Access
The Procedural Turn: Abortion at the European Court of Human Rights, Joanna
N. Erdman
The Struggle Against Informal Rules on Abortion in Argentina, Paola Bergallo
Reforming African Abortion Laws and Practice: The Place of Transparency, Charles
G. Ngwena
Part III. Framing and Claiming Rights
The Medical Framework and Early Medical Abortion in the U.K.: How Can a State
Control Swallowing? Sally Sheldon
The Right to Conscience, Bernard M. Dickens
Catholic Constitutionalism on Sex, Women, and the Beginning of Life, Julieta
Lemaitre
Bringing Abortion into the Brazilian Public Debate: Legal Strategies for
Anencephalic Pregnancy, Luís Roberto Barroso
Toward Transformative Equality in Nepal: The Lakshmi Dhikta Decision, Melissa
Upreti
Part IV. Narratives and Social Meaning
Reckoning with Narratives of Innocent Suffering in Transnational Abortion
Litigation, Lisa M. Kelly
Narratives of Prenatal Personhood in Abortion Law, Alejandro Madrazo,
Stigmatized Meanings of Criminal Abortion Law, Rebecca J. Cook,
Table of Legislation.
Table of Cases. (also online here,
with links to decisions in English and/or other languages)