Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
ISBN 13 | 9780190051723 |
ISBN 10 | 0190051728 |
Author | Katie Watson |
Book Format | Paperback |
Language | English |
Book Description | Although statistically common, and legal since 1973, abortion still bears significant stigma―a proverbial scarlet A. Fear of this stigma leads most of the women and men who are part of the 21% of American pregnancies that end in abortion to remain si |
About the Author | Katie Watson is an award-winning Associate Professor of Medical Social Sciences, Medical Education, and Obstetrics & Gynecology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, where she has taught bioethics, medical humanities, and constitutional law to medical students and masters students for fifteen years. Professor Watson is also a lawyer who began her career clerking in the federal judiciary and practicing public interest law, and in 2017-2018 she worked part-time as Senior Counsel to the Women's and Reproductive Rights Project of the ACLU of Illinois. Professor Watson has been a Board member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and she is currently on the Board of the National Abortion Federation, and a Bioethics Advisor to and Member of the National Medical Council of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. |
Publication Date | 2019-10-24 |
Number of Pages | 296 pages |
Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion