Although statistically common, and legal since 1973, abortion still bears significant stigma¿a proverbial scarlet A. Fear of this stigma leads most of the women and men who are part of the 21% of American pregnancies that end in abortion to remain silent. This paperback edition brings the story of ordinary abortion out of the shadows and invites a new conversation about its actual practice, ethics, politics, and law. Professor Katie Watson lends her incisive legaland medical ethics expertise to navigate wisely and respectfully one of the most divisive topics of contemporary life.
Although statistically common, and legal since 1973, abortion still bears significant stigma¿a proverbial scarlet A. Fear of this stigma leads most of the women and men who are part of the 21% of American pregnancies that end in abortion to remain silent. This paperback edition brings the story of ordinary abortion out of the shadows and invites a new conversation about its actual practice, ethics, politics, and law. Professor Katie Watson lends her incisive legaland medical ethics expertise to navigate wisely and respectfully one of the most divisive topics of contemporary life.
Katie Watson is an award-winning Associate Professor of Medical Social Sciences, Medical Education, and Obstetrics & Gynecology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, where she has taught bioethics, medical humanities, and constitutional law to medical students and masters students for fifteen years. Professor Watson is also a lawyer who began her career clerking in the federal judiciary and practicing public interest law, and in 2017-2018 she worked part-time as Senior Counsel to the Women's and Reproductive Rights Project of the ACLU of Illinois. Professor Watson has been a Board member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and she is currently on the Board of the National Abortion Federation, and a Bioethics Advisor to and Member of the National Medical Council of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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Preface to the Paperback Edition Introduction A Note on Terminology Pseudonyms 1. Ordinary Abortion: Common and Clandestine 2. Abortion Storytelling: Law, Masterplots, and Counter- Narratives 3. Abortion Conversation: Mapping a Minefield 4. Abortion Ethics I: Whether 5. Abortion Ethics II: When 6. Abortion Politics: Trojan Horses, Russian Dolls, and Realpolitik Epilogue
