Abortion law in transnational perspective
Subtitle: cases and controversies
By: edited by Rebecca J. Cook, Joanna N. Erdman, and Bernard M. Dickens
Series: Pennsylvania studies in human rights; Pennsylvania studies in human rights
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780812246278
Subjects: Abortion; Law and legislation
Notes: Includes table of cases and table of legislation, treaties, and other relevant instruments

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Rebecca J. Cook, Joanna N. Erdman, and Bernard M. Dickens.; title: The Constitutionalization of Abortion /   Reva B. Siegel; title: Abortion in Portugal : New Trends in European Constitutionalism /  Ruth Rubio-Marín; title: Women's Rights in the Abortion Decision of the Slovak Constitutional Court /  Adriana Lamacková; title: Proportionality in the Constitutional Review of Abortion Law /  Verónica Undurraga; title: A Functionalist Approach to Comparative Abortion Law  /  Rachel Rebouché; title: The Procedural Turn : Abortion at the European Court of Human Rights /  Joanna N. Erdman; title: The Struggle Against Informal Rules on Abortion in Argentina /  Paola Bergallo; title: Reforming African Abortion Laws and Practice : The Place of Transparency /  Charles G. Ngwena; title: The Medical Framework and Early Medical Abortion in the U.K. :  How Can a State Control Swallowing? /  Sally Sheldon; title: The Right to Conscience /  Bernard M. Dickens; title: Catholic Constitutionalism on Sex, Women, and the Beginning of Life /  Julieta Lemaitre; title: Bringing Abortion into the Brazilian Public Debate : Legal Strategies for Anencephalic Pregnancy /  Luís Roberto Barroso; title: Toward Transformative Equality in Nepal : The Lakshmi Dhikta Decision /  Melissa Upreti; title: Reckoning with Narratives of Innocent Suffering in Transnational Abortion Litigation /  Lisa M. Kelly; title: Narratives of Prenatal Personhood in Abortion Law  /  Alejandro Madrazo; title: Stigmatized Meanings of Criminal Abortion Law / Rebecca J. Cook.