Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion. By KatieWatson. Pp. 280, NY, Oxford University Press, 2018, $29.95.

Sutton, Agneta

doi:10.1111/heyj.13359

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“…Abortion stigma manifests and can be reproduced through public attitudes about abortion legality and legislation regulating abortion that contribute to a narrative in which abortion is devalued and perceived negatively (Hanschmidt et al, 2016;Kumar et al, 2009;Norris et al, 2011;Shellenberg et al, 2011). Since the 2022, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (i.e., Dobbs v. Jackson) decision resulted in overturning Roe v. Wade (i.e., the Supreme Court decision establishing abortion prior to viability as a constitutionally protected right; Watson, 2018), states have and will continue to pass legislation criminalizing most abortion. These laws criminalizing abortion articulate punishments applied to certain people (i.e., actors) involved in illegal abortion with differential severity.…”

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Abortion Stigma: Attitudes Toward Abortion Responsibility, Illegal Abortion, and Perceived Punishments of “Illegal Abortion”

Jozkowski,

Mena-Meléndez,

Crawford

et al. 2023

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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We examined public opinion regarding unique aspects of abortion legality to better understand potential contexts in which stigma may occur and the extent that people (a) believe actors involved in abortion (i.e., pregnant woman, healthcare provider, man involved in the pregnancy, someone providing information about where to get an abortion, parents of a minor) should be held responsible for illegal abortion, (b) believe abortion should be illegal across different circumstances, and (c) endorse different punishments for pregnant women and healthcare providers, including variation by responsibility. An online survey was administered to 2,489 English and Spanish-speaking U.S. adults, using quota-based sampling, with post-stratification weights applied to match U.S. benchmarks. People scored healthcare providers and women more responsible than other actors. Although the majority did not support abortion being illegal for most circumstances, a substantial proportion were unsure. Additionally, “no punishment” was most frequently selected for the woman and healthcare provider. However, those who endorsed any punishment, compared with no punishment, typically indicated the pregnant woman and healthcare provider were more responsible. Our findings suggest that current laws criminalizing abortion are misaligned with public opinion and that pregnant women and healthcare providers are likely most susceptible to abortion-related stigma.

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Abortion Stigma: Attitudes Toward Abortion Responsibility, Illegal Abortion, and Perceived Punishments of “Illegal Abortion”

Jozkowski,

Mena-Meléndez,

Crawford

et al. 2023

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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“…Together, these findings suggest that abortion attitudes varied as a function of the circumstance of abortion and migrant generation, indicating the potential importance of the contexts of abortion and socialization on abortion attitudes. This finding is particularly timely because the recent decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade (i.e., the Supreme Court decision establishing abortion before viability as a constitutionally protected right; Watson 2018). It is important to understand fundamental abortion beliefs among all people in the U.S., including Latinxs, who are sometimes incorrectly categorized or overlooked in surveys.…”

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Migrant Generations and Abortion Circumstances: Assessing Latinxs' Abortion Attitudes in the US*

Bueno

Montenegro

et al. 2023

Sociological Inquiry

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This study examines how Latinx migrant generation and the circumstances of abortion may be linked to attitudes toward abortion legality among a sample of U.S.‐Latinx adults. Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Multiple‐Indicators Multiple‐Causes modeling, we found that abortion attitudes across different migrant generations are sensitive to circumstances motivating the abortion. We did not find significant differences across migrant generations for generally more endorsed circumstances, such as when the woman's health is at risk or when the pregnancy occurs as a result of rape. However, second and third generations were more inclined to endorse legal abortion than first‐generation for generally less endorsed circumstances, such as low income, being unpartnered, not wanting (more) children, or contraception failure. The social context in which one is raised (i.e., the United States for migrants' descendants or the country of birth for the first‐generation migrants) plays a role in shaping abortion attitudes regarding the less endorsed social‐related circumstances but not for more endorsed circumstances. Further research should consider the inner heterogeneity of the Latinx population as well as the multiple contexts of abortion.

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“…Abortion advocates in the 1970s, she argues, “borrowed from rather than refuted social conservatives’ arguments about the importance of mothering and of the mother‐child bond” insofar as they asserted “women's caretaking role” as a “fact of life, but they also highlighted and attacked the social, political, and cultural reasons that some women were forced to [be], rather than being given the choice to be, primary caregivers.” 44 Consider further that adoption as a viable alternative was preached so strongly in the oral arguments of Whole Woman's Health ; those arguments assumed that women's goal in seeking abortion was to avoid raising children as opposed to also avoiding pregnancy and the dangers, complications, and impediments it entails 45 . In parallel with this, another approach in scholarship on abortion access has been to highlight the ways in which men are also affected by the ability of women to access abortion, namely, by also being able to abstain from the responsibilities of parenthood and in promoting the care and well‐being of the women in their lives 46 …”

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Legal Discrepancies and Expectations of Women: Abortion, Fetal Therapy, and NICU Care

Scheinerman¹,

Callahan²

2023

Hastings Center Report

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Over the past several decades in which access to abortion has become increasingly restricted, parents' autonomy in medical decision‐making in the realms of fetal care and neonatal intensive care has expanded. Today, parents can decide against invasive medical interventions at gestational ages where abortions are forbidden, even in cases where neonates are expected to be seriously ill. Although a declared state interest in protecting the lives of fetuses and newborns contributes to justifications for restricting women's autonomy with regards to abortion, it does not fully explain this discrepancy. We believe that social portrayals of women as complying with or shirking their reproductive function play a major role in explaining it. The growing divide between a woman's rights as a reproductive being and as a parent suggest that abortion restriction is rooted in a historical societal desire for women to serve as reproducers and in the corresponding fear of them abandoning this allotted role in pursuit of social equality. The Dobbs v. Jackson (2022) decision is not based in a view of abortion as a medical act occurring between a doctor and patient, as Roe v. Wade (1973) did, but decision‐making about fetal therapy or NICU care is still viewed as occurring between a doctor and patient or surrogate because in this act a woman is seen as fulfilling her role as mother.

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Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion. By KatieWatson. Pp. 280, NY, Oxford University Press, 2018, $29.95.

Cited by 7 publications

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Abortion Stigma: Attitudes Toward Abortion Responsibility, Illegal Abortion, and Perceived Punishments of “Illegal Abortion”

Abortion Stigma: Attitudes Toward Abortion Responsibility, Illegal Abortion, and Perceived Punishments of “Illegal Abortion”

Migrant Generations and Abortion Circumstances: Assessing Latinxs' Abortion Attitudes in the US*

Legal Discrepancies and Expectations of Women: Abortion, Fetal Therapy, and NICU Care

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