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Dorothy Stoetson's View On Abortion

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Abortion Politics, Women's Movements, and the Democratic State Electronic Resource] : A Comparative Study of State Feminism. Eds. Dorothy E. McBride and . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Web. Overall, this book presents different contentions of abortion disputes in 11 countries by providing objective reviews of historical events and political backgrounds. In particular, I select Dorothy Stetson’s discussion on “Women’s Movements’ Defence of Legal Abortion in Great Britain” in Chapter 10 to assist my investigation of American pro-life feminism, because Great Britain was the first country to reform its criminal abortion law and the entry point of interaction between women’s movement the author Dorothy uses is pertinent to …show more content…

"Embodied Equality: Debunking Equal Protection Arguments for Abortion Rights." Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 34.3 (2011): 889-950. Web. This article is the main target of my discussion on the invalidation of pro-life feminists’ arguments. Because the author Bachioch based her rebuttal to pro-choice conceptions on distorted comprehension of them and employed whether legal history facts or authoritative perceptions in a subject and deficient way, this representative article actually exposed itself to the majority of problems I discover in arguments of pro-life feminism.
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"Book Review: ProLife Feminism: Yesterday and Today." Journal of International Women's Studies 9.1 (2013): 315-8. Print.
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