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Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective offers a fresh look at significant transnational legal developments in recent years, examining key judicial decisions, constitutional texts, and regulatory reforms of abortion law in order to envision ways ahead.
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2014] ©2014 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Pennsylvania studies in human rights
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective offers a fresh look at significant transnational legal developments in recent years, examining key judicial decisions, constitutional texts, and regulatory reforms of abortion law in order to envision ways ahead. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (480 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9780812209990 |
| Index Number: | HQ767 |
| CLC: | D913.9 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / 1. The Constitutionalization of Abortion / 2. Abortion in Portugal: New Trends in European Constitutionalism / 3. Women s Rights in the Abortion Decision of the Slovak Constitutional Court / 4. Proportionality in the Constitutional Review of Abortion Law / 5. A Functionalist Approach to Comparative Abortion Law119 / 6. The Procedural Turn: Abortion at the European Court of Human Rights / 7. The Struggle Against Informal Rules on Abortion in Argentina / 8. Reforming African Abortion Laws and Practice: The Place of Transparency / 9. The Medical Framework and Early Medical Abortion in the U.K.: How Can a State Control Swallowing? / 10. The Right to Conscience / 11. Catholic Constitutionalism on Sex, Women, and the Beginning of Life / 12. Bringing Abortion into the Brazilian Public Debate: Legal Strategies for Anencephalic Pregnancy / 13. Toward Transformative Equality in Nepal: The Lakshmi Dhikta Decision / 14. Reckoning with Narratives of Innocent Suffering in Transnational Abortion Litigation / 15. Narratives of Prenatal Personhood in Abortion Law / 16. Stigmatized Meanings of Criminal Abortion Law / Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation, Treaties, and Other Relevant Instruments -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |