Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive

Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice

In an age in which womenâ€™s reproductive rights are increasingly under attack, a minister and ethicist offers a stirring argument that abortion can be a moral good

Hereâ€™s a fact that we often ignore: unplanned pregnancy and abortion are a normal part of womenâ€™s reproductive lives. Roughly one-third of US women will have an abortion by age forty-five, and fifty to sixty percent of the women who have abortions were using birth control during the month they got pregnant. Yet women who have abortions are routinely shamed and judged, and safe and affordable access to abortion is under relentless assault, with the most devastating impact on poor women and women of color.

Rebecca Todd Peters, a Presbyterian minister and social ethicist, argues that this shaming and judging reflects deep, often unspoken patriarchal and racist assumptions about women and womenâ€™s sexual activity. These assumptions are at the heart of what she calls the justification framework, which governs our public debate about abortion, and disrupts our ability to have authentic public discussions about the health and well-being of women and their families.

Abortion, then, isnâ€™t the social problem we should be focusing on. The problem is our inability to trust women to act as rational, capable, responsible moral agents who must weigh the concrete moral question of what to do when they are pregnant or when there are problems during a pregnancy.

Ambitious in method and scope, Trust Women skillfully interweaves political analysis, sociology, ancient and modern philosophy, Christian tradition, and medical history, and grounds its analysis in the material reality of womenâ€™s lives and their decisions about sexuality, abortion, and child-bearing. It ends with a powerful re-imagining of the moral contours of pre-natal life and suggests we recognize pregnancy as a time when a woman must assent, again and again, to an ethical relationship with the prenate.
Country USA
Brand Beacon Press
Manufacturer Beacon Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0807041483_used
Color Purple
ReleaseDate 2019-02-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780807041482

Country	USA
Brand	Beacon Press
Manufacturer	Beacon Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	0807041483_used
Color	Purple
ReleaseDate	2019-02-26
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780807041482

Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice

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