Pregnancy and Power, Revised Edition: A History of Reproductive Politics in the United States

A sweeping chronicle of women’s battles for reproductive freedom

Reproductive politics in the United States has always been about who has the power to decide—lawmakers, the courts, clergy, physicians, or the woman herself. Authorities have rarely put women’s needs and interests at the center of these debates. Instead, they have created reproductive laws and policies to solve a variety of social and political problems, with outcomes that affect the lives of different groups of women different...