Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-2018
Abstract
This article considers the impact of laws and policies that determine who experiences unplanned pregnancy, who has abortions, and how economic status shapes one’s response to unplanned pregnancy. There is a well-documented correlation between abortion and poverty: poor women have more abortions than do their richer sisters. Equally well-documented is the correlation between unplanned pregnancy and poverty. Finally, the high cost of motherhood for poor women and their offspring manifests in disproportionately high lifelong rates of poverty, ill-health and mortality for offspring and mothers, alike. Read together, these factors offer a vivid illustration of the medicalization of poverty.
Automated Citation
Michelle Oberman,
Motherhood, Abortion, and the Medicalization of Women’s Poverty
, 46 J.L. Med. & Ethics 665
(2018),
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/facpubs/959
Comments
Published in the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Volume: 46 issue: 3, page(s): 665-671. Article first published online: October 18, 2018; Issue published: September 1, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1073110518804221