Introduction&Clarice Feinman 1
Abortion Approval as a Ritual of Symbolic Control&Delila Amir Orly Biniamin 5
Introduction 6
Conceptual Framework: Power/Knowledge and Social Control 7
Methodology 10
Findings 12
Discussion 16
Decriminalization or Legalization? The Abortion Debate in Italy&Tamar Pitch 27
The History 28
The Contemporary Debate 33
Conclusions 38
Unwanted Pregnancy, Due Process of Law and Justice White&Sarah Slavin 41
Introduction 41
The Thornburgh Case 42
Justice White's Thornburgh Dissent 43
Due Process of Law in Justice White's Dissent 44
Discussion 49
Contract Motherhood: Social Practice in Social Context&Mary Gibson 55
Introduction 56
Social Context 60
Exploitation 69
Commodification 74
Alienation 78
Autonomy 81
Conclusion 84
Surrogate Motherhood and the Morality of Care&Michael Dahlem 101
The Morality of Care 102
Judicial Responses 104
Legislative Response 109
Public Policy and the Morality of Care 109
Conclusion 116
Prenatal Harm as Child Abuse?&Joan C. Callahan James W. Knight 127
Introduction 128
Prenatal Personhood: A Matter of Decision Rather Than Discovery 129
Legal Actions for Prenatal Injury 132
Protecting Future Persons 135
The Fetus as Patient 140
Direct Interference with Pregnant Women and the Analogy to Pediatric Cases 141
Legal Sanctions for Women Who Cause Prenatal Harm? 145
Conclusion 148
Punishment and Welfare: Crack Cocaine and the Regulation of Mothering&Lisa Maher 157
Introduction 158
Controlling Women: Theory 160
Controlling Women: Court Decisions 165
The Veil of Foetal Rights: A Kinder, Gentler Control? 170
The Juridogenic Power of Law 172
Juridogenic for Whom and How? 174
Conclusion 181
Women and Fetus: The Social Construction of Conflict&Wendy Chavkin 193
Mothers and Children, Drugs and Crack: Reactions to Maternal Drug Dependency&Drew Humphries John Dawson Valerie Cronin Phyllis Keating Chris Wisniewski Jennine Eichfeld 203
Maternal Drug Use and Cocaine-Exposed Children 205
Criminalization, Drug Trafficking and Child Abuse 208
Medicalization: Reporting Child Abuse 211
Treatment: From Limited Options to One-Stop Shops 214
Conclusion 217