Anti-Dobbs : An Interdisciplinary Polemic

Anti-Dobbs: An Interdisciplinary Polemic argues that abortion prohibitions are objectively and subjectively anti-woman and that there are no good arguments for prohibiting abortion that do not in some fashion denigrate women for being women and punish them for their reproductive capabilities (or for their sexual activity).

Dobbs v. Jackson Women''s Health Organization, grounded in an unarticulated patriarchy in the Supreme Court’s historical narrative, was an untimely expression of deeply religious and conservative hatred against women. Anti-Dobbs: An Interdisciplinary Polemic, in contrast, argues that abortion prohibitions are anti-woman and that there are no good arguments for prohibiting abortion that do not denigrate women. The abortion issue is a shadow cast by the law over a more fundamental question: the status of, and respect for, women as human beings and equal citizens. Anti-Dobbs maintains that generous abortion rights are fundamental to women’s equality, and that Dobbs was grotesquely wrong (legally and morally). This book, grounded in more than 20 years of the author’s experience teaching a course entitled “Law and Diversity in U.S. History,” is a “speaking back” and a polemic for the equality of women who have been reduced to being little more than “fetal containers” by the Supreme Court.