Abortion Pills Go Global: Reproductive Freedom Across BordersAn unprecedented, up-close look into the global self-managed abortion movement. Abortion pills have made safe medication abortion possible for millions of people around the world, even in the most restrictive circumstances. In this timely book, Sydney Calkin illustrates the profound, transformative promise of these pills—which are safe, effective, and responsible for a sharp decline in maternal mortality. Abortion Pills Go Global demonstrates that the widespread practice of self-managed medication abortion makes it more difficult for countries to enforce oppressive abortion laws and less willing to do so. Taking a bold and unique geographic approach, this book follows these pills as they are manufactured and transported by feminist activists from India to Ireland, Northern Ireland, Poland, and the United States. Calkin shows that the growing availability of abortion pills in places with restrictive laws means more people have access to self-managed healthcare. Abortion Pills Go Global looks ahead to see how the broader politics of abortion could shift in response to this global movement—one that looks not to laws for protection but to on-the-ground feminist mobilizations across borders. |
Contents
How Indian Abortion Pills Travel the Globe | 25 |
Abortion Pills in US Clinics and Laws | 46 |
How to SelfManage Abortion in America | 66 |
The Geography of Clandestine Abortion in Poland | 88 |
Abortion Pills in the Polish Abortion Underground | 106 |
Irish Abortions by Plane or Pill | 127 |
Abortion Pills and Irelands 8th Amendment Referendum | 146 |
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