02891cam a2200301 i 4500 614841213 TxAuBib 20230215120000.0 221013s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022041310 9780802160683 HRD 28.00 0802160689 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib rda Kornbluh, Felicia Ann, 1966-, author Woman's life is a human life. A woman's life is a human life [BOOK] : my mother, our neighbor, and the journey from reproductive rights to reproductive justice in New York and the nation / Felicia Kornbluh. First edition. New York, NY : Grove Press, [2023] xxv, 404 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. Before there was a “Jane Roe,” the most important champions of reproductive rights were ordinary people working in their local communities. In A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life, historian Felicia Kornbluh delivers the untold story of everyday activists who defined those rights and achieved them, in the years immediately before and after Roe v. Wade made abortion legal under federal law. A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life is the story of two movements in New York that transformed the politics of reproductive rights: the fight to decriminalize abortion and the fight against sterilization abuse, which happened disproportionately in communities of color and was central to an activism that was about the right to bear children, as well as not to. Each initiative won key victories that relied on people power and not on the federal courts. Their histories cast new light on Roe and constitutional rights, on the difficulty and importance of achieving a truly inclusive feminism, and on reproductive politics today. This is a book full of drama. From dissident Democrats who were the first to try reforming abortion laws and members of a rising feminist movement who refashioned them, to the nation’s largest abortion referral service established by progressive Christian and Jewish clergy, to Puerto Rican activists who demanded community accountability in healthcare and introduced sterilization abuse to the movement’s agenda, and Black women who took the cause global, A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life documents the diverse ways activists changed the law and worked to create a world that would support all people’s reproductive choices. Provided by publisher. 20230215. Reproductive rights History. Abortion Law and legislation History. Sterilization (Birth control) History.