Taking Chances: Abortion and the Decision Not to Contracept

Taking Chances: Abortion and the Decision Not to Contracept by Kristin Luker investigates the social, cultural, and personal dynamics that shape contraceptive behavior and the decision to seek abortion. Beginning with clinical encounters that challenged prevailing assumptions about who seeks abortion and why, Luker questions the "rules of plausibility" that long framed abortion as a rare, traumatic, and socially stigmatized act. Through careful sociological analysis, she demonstrates how mi...