About Abortion - Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America torrent

About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America
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English | ISBN: 0674737725 | 2017 | 320 pages | PDF | 13 MB

One of the most private decisions a woman can make, abortion is also one of the most contentious topics in American civic life. Protested at rallies and politicized in party platforms, terminating pregnancy is often characterized as a selfish decision by women who put their own interests above those of the fetus. This background of stigma and hostility has stifled women’s willingness to talk about abortion, which in turn distorts public and political discussion. To pry open the silence surrounding this public issue, Sanger distinguishes between abortion privacy, a form of nondisclosure based on a woman’s desire to control personal information, and abortion secrecy, a woman’s defense against the many harms of disclosure.
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