Abortion rights and Roe v Wade: implications for social work – voices from the social work academy

Abstract

This paper draws together the work of three leading social work academics to look at the question of abortion and a woman’s right to chose in the context of the recent Roe V Wade reversal in the United States.

The challenge of right-wing populism— A human rights approach

“…Like many social workers, I have felt deeply distressed by the growth of rightwing extremism visible in the vicious campaigns against abortion rights in the US and elsewhere (Lavalette et al, 2022), the attacks against rights for transgender and non-binary people (Kant & Boskey, 2022;Miles, 2018), and the extremist opposition to public health measures everywhere over the last two years of the Covid-19 pandemic (Beddoe, 2022). This book contributes to a greater sense of understanding of how the dynamics of populism work and intensifies my belief that social work must make a very strong stand against these threats to human rights.…”