| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 350 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Sherri Finkbine flew to Sweden : abortion and disability in the early 1960s / Lena Lennerhed -- From Heathrow airport to Harley Street : the ALRA and the travel of non-resident women for abortion services in Britain / Christabelle Sethna -- The trans-Tasman abortion travel service : abortion services for New Zealand women in the 1970s / Hayley Brown -- All aboard the "abortion express" : geographic variability, domestic travel and the 1967 Abortion Act / Gayle Davis, Jane O'Neill, Clare Parker, and Sally Sheldon -- A double movement : the politics of reproductive mobility in Ireland / Mary Gilmartin and Sinead Kennedy -- Tales of mobility : women's travel and abortion services in a globalized Australia / Barbara Baird -- Don't mess with Texas : abortion policy Texas style / Lori Brown -- Trials and trails : the emergence of Canada's abortion refugees in Prince Edward Island / Cathrine Chambers, Colleen MacQuarrie, and Jo-Ann MacDonald -- Abortion travel and the cost of reproductive choice in Spain / Agata Ignaciuk -- "The import problem" : the travels of our bodies, ourselves, to Eastern Europe / Anna Bogic -- The illegal abortion underground, abortion tourism and the Catholic Church in Poland / Ewelina Ciaputa -- Brexit and reproductive healthcare : abortion access for women traveling to Britain, post-EU / Niklas Barke |
| Summary |
"Safe, legal, and affordable abortion is widely recognized as an essential medical service for women across the world. When access to that service is denied or restricted, women are compelled to carry unwanted pregnancies to term, seek backstreet abortionists, attempt self-induced abortions, or even travel to less restrictive states, provinces, and countries to receive care. Abortion across Borders focuses on travel across domestic and international boundaries to terminate a pregnancy. Christabelle Sethna and Gayle Davis have gathered a cadre of authors to examine how restrictive policies force women to move both within and across national borders in order to reach abortion providers, often at great expense, over long distances and with significant safety risks. Taking historical and contemporary perspectives, contributors examine the situation in regions that include Texas, Prince Edward Island, Ireland, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Eastern Europe. Throughout, they take a feminist intersectional approach to transnational travel and access to abortion services that is sensitive to inequalities of gender, race, and class in reproductive health care. This multidisciplinary volume raises challenging logistical, legal, and ethical questions while exploring the gendered aspects of medical tourism"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from resource home page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed February 17, 2020) |
| Subject |
Abortion.
|
|
Medical tourism.
|
|
Medical policy.
|
|
Women's rights.
|
|
Abortion, Induced -- history
|
|
Medical Tourism -- history
|
|
Abortion, Legal -- legislation & jurisprudence
|
|
Health Policy
|
|
Women's Rights
|
|
Internationality
|
|
History, 20th Century
|
|
Medical Tourism
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
|
|
Abortion
|
|
Medical policy
|
|
Medical tourism
|
|
Women's rights
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Sethna, Christabelle, 1961- editor.
|
|
Davis, Gayle, 1974- editor.
|
| ISBN |
9781421427300 |
|
1421427303 |
|
