A Woman's Life Is a Human Life (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

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Published to coincide
with the 50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, historian Felicia
Kornbluh delivers an urgent book about two key reproductive rights victories in
New York which set the tone for the nation - and exemplified the achievements
and shortfalls of the era's feminism




In A
Woman's Life Is a Human Life, historian Felicia Kornbluh chronicles the two
movements in New York State that would forever shape the political landscape
locally and nationally on reproductive rights: the fight to decriminalize
abortion and that against the abuse of sterilization, the permanent ending of
reproductive capacity disproportionately proposed as birth control to Black,
Latinx, and poor women. From the abortion referral service established by progressive
clergy, to the attempt to enshrine bodily autonomy in a new state Constitution,
to the occupation of the Bronx's subpar Lincoln Hospital by the Young Lords
working in concert with progressive doctors and hospital staff, A Woman's
Life Is a Human Life is rich with evidence of the diverse coalition of
liberals, radicals, and feminists who changed the law and, in time, what we are
able to envision as reproductive justice. With firsthand accounts and
rarely-seen archival sources--including those of her mother, who wrote the first
draft of New York's law decriminalizing abortion, and their across-the-hall
neighbor, Dr. Helen Rodr�guez-Tr�as, a Puerto Rican doctor who was one of the
leading activists in combating sterilization abuse--and a deft interpretation of
the record, Kornbluh delivers a rich history of the forgotten grassroots efforts
that defined the fight for reproductive justice in New York and the nation.