NCJ Number
136654
Journal
Women and Criminal Justice Volume: 3 Issue: 1 Dated: special issue (1991) Pages: complete issue
Editor(s)
C Feinman
Date Published
1991
Length
126 pages
Annotation
The contributors to this special issue address the concern of many women regarding the trend towards the criminalization of their bodies: the threat to their autonomy, their privacy, their bodily integrity, and their constitutional rights.
Abstract
Women's right to abortion and the more recent debate on women's right to be contract (surrogate) mothers are the topics of Part 1 of this special theme issue. The articles devoted to abortion describe abortion law in Israel and the present debate over abortion law in Italy and summarize U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White's antiabortion opinions. On the topic of contract motherhood, one article argues that commercial contract motherhood should be prohibited and brokering criminalized; another argues against the granting of specific performance of surrogate parenting contracts. 175 notes and 51 references