Abortion Trail Activism

<p><b>Abortion trail activists are national and transnational organizations and movements that enable access to safe abortion - this open access book adopts a global perspective to explore their historic contribution to reproductive justice their innovative work and the continuing and emergent problems they face. </b> <p/>Deirdre Duffy offers the first dedicated analysis of both the historic and on-going relationship between groups supporting access to abortion and abortion politics drawing on theoretical perspectives and debates including post-colonialism feminist anarchism and health activism. Challenging assumptions about the achievements of pro-choice politics Duffy examines the race-based exclusions within and created by dominant historic pro-choice narratives critiquing the prochoice movements' whiteness and the limitations of a focus on legal change. Case studies are drawn from across the Global North and South including examples from Argentina Kenya Poland the Netherlands and Ireland. <p/><i>The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Lancaster University.</i></p>