The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood
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Decades before the overturning of Roe v. Wade, pregnant people faced arrest and prosecution for crimes against the pregnancies they gestated. The Pregnancy Police investigates the legal arguments undergirding these prosecutions and sheds light on the networks of health-care providers, social workers, and legal personnel participating in the surveillance and punishment of pregnant people. Drawing on analyses of legislation, statements from prosecutors and law enforcement, and records from over 1,000 arrest cases, Howard traces the history of state attempts to regulate and control pregnant people—from the early twentieth century's white supremacist eugenics to the end of Roe.
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Publication Date
1-1-2024
Publisher
University of California Press
