Abortion Pills Go Global: Reproductive Freedom Across Borders Volume 7

An unprecedented, up-close look into the global self-managed abortion movement.

Abortion pills have made safe medication abortion possible for millions of people around the world, even in the most restrictive circumstances. In this timely book, Sydney Calkin illustrates the profound, transformative promise of these pills--which are safe, effective, and responsible for a sharp decline in maternal mortality. Abortion Pills Go Global demonstrates that the widespread practice of self-managed medication abortion makes it more difficult for countries to enforce oppressive abortion laws and less willing to do so.

Taking a bold and unique geographic approach, this book follows these pills as they are manufactured and transported by feminist activists from India to Ireland, Northern Ireland, Poland, and the United States. Calkin shows that the growing availability of abortion pills in places with restrictive laws means more people have access to self-managed healthcare. Abortion Pills Go Global looks ahead to see how the broader politics of abortion could shift in response to this global movement--one that looks not to laws for protection but to on-the-ground feminist mobilizations across borders.

Author: Sydney Calkin
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 10/03/2023
Pages: 367
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780520391970
ISBN10: 0520391977
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Abortion & Birth Control
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Social Science | Gender Studies