ArticleHealth and human rights2017
Theorizing Time in Abortion Law and Human Rights.
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- Obstetricians' views on extending the 12-week abortion limit in Belgium: A qualitative study.PloS one · 2025Article
- Policy surveillance for a global analysis of national abortion laws.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2022Article
- Is third-trimester abortion exceptional? Two pathways to abortion after 24 weeks of pregnancy in the United States.Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health · 2022Article
- Eliminating Abortion from Criminal Law in Colombia: A Just Cause.Health and human rights · 2019Article
- From the Grassroots to the Oireachtas: Abortion Law Reform in the Republic of Ireland.Health and human rights · 2019Article
- The 'Institutional Lottery': Institutional variation in the processes involved in accessing late abortion in Victoria, Australia.Women's studies international forumArticle
- Abortion at the edges: Politics, practices, performances.Women's studies international forumArticle
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Abstract
The legal regulation of abortion by gestational age, or length of pregnancy, is a relatively undertheorized dimension of abortion and human rights. Yet struggles over time in abortion law, and its competing representations and meanings, are ultimately struggles over ethical and political values, authority and power, the very stakes that human rights on abortion engage. This article focuses on three struggles over time in abortion and human rights law: those related to morality, health, and justice. With respect to morality, the article concludes that collective faith and trust should be placed in the moral judgment of those most affected by the passage of time in pregnancy and by later abortion-pregnant women. With respect to health, abortion law as health regulation should be evidence-based to counter the stigma of later abortion, which leads to overregulation and access barriers. With respect to justice, in recognizing that there will always be a need for abortion services later in pregnancy, such services should be safe, legal, and accessible without hardship or risk. At the same time, justice must address the structural conditions of women's capacity to make timely decisions about abortion, and to access abortion services early in pregnancy.
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