Grace Howard on Her New Book: The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood

About this episode

Dr. Grace Howard discusses her new book on the history of state regulation of pregnancy and the criminalization of abortion.

Telling pregnant people what to do and enforcing pregnancy criminalization has been a decades-long threat. Dr. Grace Howard sits down with us to discuss her new book, which “traces the long history of state attempts to regulate and control people who have the capacity for pregnancy--from the early twentieth century's white supremacist eugenics to the end of Roe and the ever-increasing criminalization of abortion across the United States.” For more information, check out Boom! Lawyered: https:...

People in this episode

Host: Jennie Wetter

Guest: Grace Howard

Topics covered

• pregnancy criminalization
• reproductive rights
• eugenics
• abortion
• state regulation

Keywords

• pregnancy
• criminalization
• reproductive rights
• eugenics
• abortion
• state control
• personhood

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Boom! Lawyered

Books & works: The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood

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