The Politics of Abortion

by Jane Jenson, Janine Brodie, Shelley A. M. Gavigan

On 28 January 1988 the Supreme Court of Canada, in its landmark decision, Morgentaler v The Queen, ruled that the existing federal law regulating abortion violated women's 'security of the person' and therefore was unconstitutional. With one stroke of the judicial gavel, Canada's top court set in motion an intensive round of abortion politics culminating in a parliamentary stalemate and no new abortion law. The Politics of Abortion: Representations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195408667
• ISBN13: 9780195408669
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Canada
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"