Abortion Pills: Us History and Politics

Carrie N Baker

Book cover for Abortion Pills: Us History and Politics
Book cover for Abortion Pills: Us History and Politics
Book cover for Abortion Pills: Us History and Politics
Book cover for Abortion Pills: Us History and Politics

Abortion Pills: Us History and Politics

Abortion Pills: Us History and Politics

Carrie N Baker

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Description

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive history of abortion pills in the United States. Public intellectual and lawyer Carrie N. Baker shows how courageous activists waged a decades-long campaign to establish, expand, and maintain access to abortion pills. Weaving their voices throughout her book, Baker recounts both dramatic and everyday acts of their resistance. These activists battled anti-abortion forces, overly cautious policymakers, medical gatekeepers, and fearful allies in their four-decade-long fight to free abortion pills. In post-Roe America, abortion pills are currently playing a critically important role in providing safe abortion access to tens of thousands of people living in states that now ban and restrict abortion. Understanding this struggle will help to ensure continued access into the future.

About the Author

Carrie N. Baker is the Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor of American Studies and the Chair of the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. She has written four previous books, including The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment and Fighting the US Sex Trade, and scores of peer-reviewed scholarly articles on gender, law, and social movements for women's rights. She is a regular writer and contributing editor at Ms. magazine, covering reproductive rights, discrimination in employment and education, sexual harassment, and the Equal Rights Amendment.

Publishing Information

Publisher: Amherst College
Pub date: 2024-12-03
Length: 302 pages

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