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5 - Contesting the Relationship between Abortion and Health Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2020

Mary Ziegler
Affiliation:
Florida State University
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Chronicling the mid-1990s, Chapter 5 traces a debate about the relationship between abortion and health care that evolved in the aftermath of Casey. In explaining how incremental restrictions affected women’s equal citizenship, abortion-rights groups emphasized that regulations denied women crucial health benefits. In the political arena, abortion-rights advocates worked to guarantee coverage of the procedure in national health care reform, to repeal bans on Medicaid funding for abortion, to introduce legislation protecting access to clinic entrances, and to ensure access to medical abortion. In court, abortion-rights attorneys also described clinic blockaders – and all abortion foes – as sexists opposed to health care for women. Women of color offered a new framing of the relationship between health care and abortion, calling not for reproductive rights but for reproductive justice. Furthermore, Casey and the health-based offensive led by the abortion-rights movement caused some abortion opponents to lose faith in a strategy centered on the costs of abortion. To regain prominence, attorneys in groups like AUL and NRLC developed a new way of undermining Roe: If the Court saved abortion rights because women relied on it, the pro-life movement would demonstrate that the procedure damaged their health.

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Abortion and the Law in America
Roe v. Wade to the Present
, pp. 121 - 149
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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