{"publishers": ["Princeton University Press"], "number_of_pages": 244, "subtitle": "equal choice, the Constitution, and reproductive politics", "isbn_10": ["0691011427"], "subject_place": ["United States.", "United States"], "covers": [7389791], "lc_classifications": ["HQ767.5.U5 G734 1996", "HQ767.5.U5G734 1996"], "url": ["http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/prin031/95025448.html", "http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0a4d5-aa", "http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/prin031/95025448.html"], "key": "/books/OL792864M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL448123A"}], "publish_places": ["Princeton, N.J"], "uri_descriptions": ["Publisher description", "Book review (H-Net)", "Table of contents"], "pagination": "x, 244 p. ;", "source_records": ["marc:marc_records_scriblio_net/part25.dat:11153503:1108", "marc:marc_ithaca_college/ic_marc.mrc:149975284:876", "bwb:9780691011424", "marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part24.utf8:110271944:1108", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-05-04", "marc:marc_nuls/NULS_PHC_180925.mrc:67149727:1264", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-004.mrc:365671090:3427", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_032.bib.mrc:327921549:4372"], "title": "Rethinking abortion", "dewey_decimal_class": ["363.4/6/0973"], "notes": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-236) and indexes."}, "identifiers": {"goodreads": ["4293819"]}, "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "lccn": ["95025448"], "subjects": ["Abortion -- Political aspects -- United States", "Abortion -- Government policy -- United States", "Abortion -- United States -- Moral and ethical aspects"], "publish_date": "1996", "publish_country": "nju", "by_statement": "Mark A. Graber.", "works": [{"key": "/works/OL2938911W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "uris": ["http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/prin031/95025448.html", "http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0a4d5-aa", "http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/prin031/95025448.html"], "local_id": ["urn:bwbsku:O8-AZP-679", "urn:nuls:31786100799243"], "oclc_numbers": ["33164306"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Mark Graber looks at the history of abortion law in action to argue that the only defensible, constitutional approach to the issue is to afford all women equal choice - abortion should remain legal or bans should be strictly enforced. Steering away from metaphysical critiques of privacy, Graber compares the philosophical, constitutional, and democratic merits of the two systems of abortion regulation witnessed in the twentieth-century: pre-Roe v.\n\nWade statutory prohibitions on abortion and Roe's ban on significant state interference with the market for safe abortion services. He demonstrates that before Roe, pro-life measures were selectively and erratically administered, thereby subverting our constitutional commitment to equal justice. Claiming that these measures would be similarly administered if reinstated, the author seeks to increase support for keeping abortion legal, even among those who have reservations about its morality.\n\n.\n\nAbortion should remain legal, Graber argues, because statutory bans on abortion have a history of being enforced in ways that intentionally discriminate against poor persons and persons of color. In the years before Roe, the same law enforcement officials who routinely ignored and sometimes assisted those physicians seeking to terminate pregnancies for their private patients too often prevented competent abortionists from offering the same services to the general public.\n\nThis double standard violated the fundamental human and constitutional right of equal justice under law, a right that has powerful roots in the American political tradition and that remains a major concern of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment."}, "latest_revision": 15, "revision": 15, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-03-13T18:40:57.923744"}}