Abortion library :: Ethics and Justice

Justice for Girls:  On the Provision of Abortion as Adequate Care
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/739648

"When the US Supreme Court rejected the constitutional right to abortion care, several US states enacted bans.  This legal change exposed critical moral questions about pregnancy in childhood:  What do adults owe to an impregnated girl?  This article shows that both opponents of abortion and defenders of women's rights make a mistake by overlooking that a girl is a child.  Her caregivers should view her impregnation as a malady and take steps to terminate it.  This article presents a novel analysis of a previously unnamed injustice - antigirlism - to make sense of the mistreatment that girls endure in reproductive care. ..."

Authors:  Alyssa Izatt, Ph.D. student (UBC); and Kimberley Brownlee, D.Phil (UBC)

What Did the Suffragists Really Think About Abortion? (Smithsonian Magazine)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-did-the-suffragists-really-think-about-abortion-180980124/

"Contrary to contemporary claims, Susan B. Anthony, [Elizabeth Cady Stanton], and [their] peers rarely discussed abortion, which only emerged as a key political issue in the 1960s."

Author:  Treva B. Lindsey, Ph.D.