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Based on candid, in-depth interviews with women who considered but did not obtain an abortion,
No Real Choice analyzes the structural obstacles to abortion and the cultural ideologies that try to persuade women not to choose abortion. It illustrates how real reproductive choice is denied, for whom, and at what cost.
List of contents
1. No Real Choice
2. Policies, Poverty, and the Organization of Abortion Care
3. Privileging the Fetus
4. Seeing Irresponsibility and Harm
5. Fearing the Experience of Abortion
6. Choosing a Baby
7. Toward Reproductive Autonomy
Methodological Appendix
Acknowledgments
References
Index
About the author
KATRINA KIMPORT is an associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and a research sociologist with the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) program of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco. Her books include
Queering Marriage: Challenging Family Formation in the United States (Rutgers University Press).
Summary
Uses in-depth interviews with pregnant women who considered but did not obtain an abortion to argue that not everyone who continues a pregnancy wants to have a baby. Some are doing so because abortion was not a real option.
