The Cost of "Choice": Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion

Annotation Including essays by eminent figures such as Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and Elizabeth Fox Genovese, Eleonore Raoul Professor of the Humanities at Emory University, The Cost of "Choice" captures the moral, legal, medical and political complexities surrounding abortion. Agree or disagree, the reader will concur that the gravity that should accompany any discussion of this difficult subject is fully on display in this insightful and instructive book A Collection Of Essays That Examine The Physical And Mental Impact Of Abortion, Arguing That Legal Abortion Has Done More Harm Than Good For Modern Women. From Culture Wars To Building A Culture Of Life / Mary Ann Glendon -- Three Decades Of Empty Promises / Candace C. Crandall -- Coming Of Age In A Culture Of Choice / Erika Bachiochi -- The Feminist Case Against Abortion / Serrin M. Foster -- Living In The Shadow Of Mönchberg : Prenatal Testing And Genetic Abortion / Elizabeth Schiltz -- Abortion : A War On Women / Elizabeth Fox-genovese -- Reviewing The Evidence, Breaking The Silence : Long-term Physical And Psychological Health Consequence Of Induced Abortion / Elizabeth M. Shadigian -- The Abortion-breast Cancer Link : The Studies And The Science / Angela Lanfranchi -- The Psychological Aftermath Of Three Decades Of Abortion / E. Joanne Angelo -- The Supreme Court And The Creation Of The Two-dimensional Woman / Paige Comstock Cunningham -- Abortion Clinic Regulation : Combating The True Back Alley / Denise M. Burke -- Abortion-alternative Legislation And The Law Of The Gift / Dorinda C. Bordlee. Preface By Jean Bethke Elshtain ; Edited By Erika Bachiochi. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 145-171) And Index. More than thirty years after Roe v. Wade , the conflict over abortion has not abated. While "pro-choice" forces increasingly concede the central "pro-life" claim - that abortion is a morally portentous act - they still insist that the well-being of women depends absolutely on a legal right to abortion. The twelve essays in The Cost of Choice all by women active in the public square, argue that legal abortion has in fact harmed women - socially, medically, psychologically and culturally. Law professor Elizabeth Schiltz describes the unsettling reactions she faced for "choosing" to give birth to a child with Down Syndrome. Dr. Angel Lanfranchi, co-founder of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, offers evidence supporting a link between induced abortion and increased risk of breast cancer. Psychiatrist Joanne Angelo tells how abortion has affected women she has treated. With essays by imminent women such as Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eleonore Raoul Professor of the Humanities at Emory University, The Cost of Choice shows another side of feminism and captures the complexity of a divisive social issue. More than three decades of debate about abortion has been largely a battle of rights - the reproductive rights of women, on the one hand, versus the rights of the unborn, on the other. This collection of essays examines the central pro-abortion claim, that whatever the status of the unborn, the very well-being of women is dependent on the legal right to abortion. The authors make a case against abortion; instead of emphasizing the human rights of the unborn, they argue that legal abortion has negative effects on the well-being of women themselves - socially, medically, psychologically and culturally WHEN ROE V. WADE CAME DOWN in January 1973, President Richard Nixon had just begun his second term and the nation was embroiled in the Vietnam War.