Trust women
Subtitle: a progressive Christian argument for reproductive justice
By: Rebecca Todd Peters
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780807069981
Subjects: Motherhood; Abortion; Christianity
Description: "In an age where Roe v. Wade is in danger of being overturned, a minister and ethicist offers a Christian defense of abortion, arguing that we need to trust women to make moral decisions about their pregnancies, their families, and their futures. Unplanned pregnancy and abortion are a normal part of women's reproductive lives: roughly one-third of US women will have an abortion by age forty-five, and fifty to sixty percent of the women who have abortions were using birth control during the month that they got pregnant. Yet women who have abortions are shamed and judged for their actions, and safe access to abortion is under relentless assault. In this carefully reasoned and powerful book, Christian ethicist Rebecca Todd Peters argues that abortion is not the problem. The problem is our inability to trust women to act as rational, capable, responsible moral agents who must weigh the concrete moral question of how to respond to a particular unplanned pregnancy. When we move away from a debate requiring women to justify ending a pregnancy, Peters writes, and toward a debate that considers the broader social problems and questions that shape women's reproductive lives, and the lives of their children, we will have created a public policy debate that is asking the right questions. In an age in which women's reproductive rights are increasingly under attack, Peter's stirring defense of abortion as an ethical choice is necessary reading"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: ONE IN THREE; title: You Shouldn't Have a Baby Just Because You're Pregnant; title: Abortion in Real Life; title: Abortion Policy as the Public Abuse of Women; title: WHY MISOGYNY AND PATRIARCHY MATTER; title: Misogyny Is Exhausting; title: Patriarchy as Social Control; title: The Tragedy of Flawed Moral Discourse; title: MOVING FROM JUSTIFICATION TO JUSTICE; title: Reimagining Pregnancy; title: Motherhood as Moral Choice; title: Celebrating the Moral Courage of Women