...brings a new perspective to the debate over fetal rights
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"Making Women Pay is an outstanding book. . . ." -- (The Law and Politics Book Review. October, 2000)
"Rachel Roth has written a compelling, important book...Roth is the first to offer in-depth, comprehensive overviews of...fetal rights." -- (Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 4)
"Roth's scrupulously researched book. . . documents an assault on women's rights waged in the name of fetal rights." -- (Choice. September, 2000)
"[A] small but powerful book...[E]xtremely well-researched...I would add, we can't afford not to read this book!" -- (Journal of the American Medical Women's Association. Fall, 2000)
"Rachel Roth has written a compelling, important book...Roth is the first to offer in-depth, comprehensive overviews of...fetal rights." -- (Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 4)
"Roth's scrupulously researched book. . . documents an assault on women's rights waged in the name of fetal rights." -- (Choice. September, 2000)
"[A] small but powerful book...[E]xtremely well-researched...I would add, we can't afford not to read this book!" -- (Journal of the American Medical Women's Association. Fall, 2000)
From the Inside Flap
"Rachel Roth is a fine scholar; I’m impressed by how smart she is and how well she has handled this complex terrain."--Rickie Solinger, author of Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade
"Rachel Roth provides an exhaustive study of judicial and legislative actions regarding fetal rights between 1973 and 1992. Her analysis surpasses previous treatments of the topic by providing a more thorough account of state actions and by developing an innovative theoretical approach for assessing the costs of fetal rights concepts to women’s employment, citizenship, and freedom. Roth’s cogent analysis makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the political implications of this highly charged issue."--Carole McCann, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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making women pay...an eye opener.,
By Angela R Snyder (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Making Women Pay: The Hidden Costs of Fetal Rights (Hardcover)
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. However, I sometimes found this book to get a little repetative in the message it was conveying.
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As government-sponsored materials depict fetuses as tortured prisoners, so do prosecutors hear fetal voices, psychologists dispense advice on behalf of fetal patients, factories exclude women lest they bring fetal visitors, legislators craft public policy for fetuses, and judges issue rulings based on fetuses' preferences, including one judge who denied a "surrogate mother" custody of a child she bore because there was "no evidence whatsoever" that the fetus had bonded with her (quoted in Hartouni 1997, 93). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Johnson Controls, United States, American Cyanamid, District of Columbia, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Native American, Seventh Circuit, South Dakota, Willow Island, Civil Rights Act, Department of Health, Angela Carder, Ayesha Madyun, Mercy Hospital, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Labor Comm, North Carolina, Review Commission, Laura Schlichtmann, Laurence Tribe, New Jersey New!
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As government-sponsored materials depict fetuses as tortured prisoners, so do prosecutors hear fetal voices, psychologists dispense advice on behalf of fetal patients, factories exclude women lest they bring fetal visitors, legislators craft public policy for fetuses, and judges issue rulings based on fetuses' preferences, including one judge who denied a "surrogate mother" custody of a child she bore because there was "no evidence whatsoever" that the fetus had bonded with her (quoted in Hartouni 1997, 93). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Johnson Controls, United States, American Cyanamid, District of Columbia, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Native American, Seventh Circuit, South Dakota, Willow Island, Civil Rights Act, Department of Health, Angela Carder, Ayesha Madyun, Mercy Hospital, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Labor Comm, North Carolina, Review Commission, Laura Schlichtmann, Laurence Tribe, New Jersey New!
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- Reproductive Technologies (Current Controversies) by Carol Wekesser on 5 pages
- Double Exposure (New Feminist Library) by Wendy Chavkin on 4 pages
- Encyclopedia of Childbearing: Critical Perspectives by Carol Mann in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- California Penal Code by West in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law by Martha Minow on page 3, and Back Matter
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- Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America by Rickie Solinger in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Historical and Multicultural Encyclopedia of Women's Reproductive Rights in the United States by Judith A. Baer in Back Matter
- Matters of Life and Death: Making Moral Theory Work in Medical Ethics and the Law. by David Orentlicher in Back Matter
- Ethical Issues in Maternal-Fetal Medicine by Donna L. Dickenson on page 112
- Real Bodies: A Sociological Introduction by Mary Evans in Back Matter
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