Making Women Pay
Subtitle: The Hidden Costs of Fetal Rights
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: August 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780801488801
Subjects: Abortion; Social law; Women's studies; Reproductive Medicine & Technology; Medical; Legal Reference / Law Profession; USA; Women's Studies - General; Gender & the Law; Human Rights; Medical Law & Legislation; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights
First sentence: As government-sponsored materials depict fetuses as tortured prisoners, so do prosecutors hear fetal voices, psychologists dispense advice on behalf of fetal patients, factories exclude women lest they bring fetal visitors, legislators craft public policy for fetuses, and judges issue rulings based on fetuses' preferences, including one judge who denied a "surrogate mother" custody of a child she bore because there was "no evidence whatsoever" that the fetus had bonded with her (quoted in Hartouni 1997, 93).