THE MORE THINGS CHANGE ... : ABORTION POLITICS & THE REGULATION OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY
Abortion and assisted reproductive technology (“ART”) may seem paradoxical in reproductive health: a woman seeks to terminate a pregnancy in the first, while a woman goes through herculean attempts to attain one in the latter. In fact, they share fundamental concerns: women’s health and autonomy. Both include medical procedures, with potential health risks and benefits, and both help a woman choose whether and when to become a mother. Abortion and ART share another commonality: when these issues enter public and political discourse, consideration of women’s health often recedes into the background. This response to articles by June Carbone and Jody Lynee Madeira suggests that issues central to the development of abortion-related regulation and jurisprudence have the potential to drive the development of ART and related law.
Bir İnsan Hakkı Olarak Güvenli Kürtaja Erişim
Beden siyaseti ozelinde kadin bedeni cesitli iktidar / bilgi merkezlerinin cekisme alaninda farkli iktidar prosedurlerine konu olmaktadir. Kadin bedeni ile ilgili bir mesele olarak kurtaj ise felsefi, hukuki, siyasi ve ahlaki bakis acilarindan cesitli sekillerde degerlendirilmektedir. Bu kapsamda ozellikle ceninin yasam hakki ile kadinin kurtaj tercihi arasindaki soylemsel catismanin odak noktasinda guvenli kurtaja erisimdeki eksiklikler, kurtaj hakkindaki yasaklar ve kurtajin kriminalizasyonu kadin / anne acisindan olumsuz sonuclar dogurmaktadir. Bu olumsuz sonuclarin ortadan kaldirilmasi icinse, cesitli insan haklari komisyonlari ve metinleri cesitli tanimlar ve eylem planlari onermektedirler. Calisma, iste bu girisimlerin biyopolitik bir sorunsal olarak kurtaji ele alisini kurtajla ilgili dunya genelindeki tabloyu gozeterek elestirel bir dille degerlendirmekte ve bir insan hakki olarak guvenli kurtaja erisim hakkinin onemine vurgu yapmaktadir.
State abortion counseling policies and the fundamental principles of informed consent.
Before the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Gonzales v. Carhart this spring many expected that the justices would limit their discussion to the constitutionality of the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act specifically in light of the laws lack of an exception for cases in which the procedure may be medically necessary to protect the pregnant womans health. But that was by no means all that the Court proffered. However indirectly Justice Anthony M. Kennedys majority opinion also moved the Court-and likely the future of the abortion debate in the states-to the very heart of the issue of informed consent. Replete with paternalistic and moralistic pronouncements Kennedys opinion asserts the "reality" that "respect for human life finds an ultimate expression in the bond of love the mother has for her child." Although forthrightly acknowledging the existence of "no reliable data to measure the phenomenon" it nonetheless labels "unexceptionable" the conclusion that "some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained." In turn it suggests that this may be the result of the information women receive or do not receive prior to consenting to the procedure. "It is self-evident that a mother who comes to regret her choice to abort must struggle with grief more anguished and sorrow more profound when she learns only after the event what she once did not know: that she allowed a doctor to pierce the skull and vacuum the fast-developing brain of her unborn child a child assuming the human form." (excerpt)