Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom
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Autographed copy! Kathryn Kolbert and Julie F. Kay are two of the most consequential legal strategists in the reproductive rights movement. Kolbert argued Planned Parenthood v. Casey before the Supreme Court, the case credited with saving Roe v. Wade; Kay led the first direct legal challenge to Ireland’s abortion ban before the European Court of Human Rights. Together, they deliver the definitive account of the fight for reproductive freedom, and a bold new strategy to protect it.
Reproductive freedom has never been in more dire straits. Roe protected abortion rights, and Casey unexpectedly preserved them, but in the decades since, those rights have been gutted by restrictive state legislation, hundreds of anti-abortion judicial appointments, and violence against providers. With an ultra-conservative Supreme Court majority now in place, we can no longer depend on the federal courts to preserve our liberties.
Kolbert and Kay tell this story through behind-the-scenes accounts of stunning losses, hard-won victories, and the women and health-care providers who lived five decades of legal battles. At this make-or-break moment, they propose audacious new strategies drawn from medical advances, state-level protections, human rights models, and activists around the world making a difference.
