[DOWNLOAD] "Dangerous Terrain: Mapping the Female Body in Gonzales V. Carhart. (Gender on the Frontiers: Confronting Intersectionalities)" by Columbia Journal of Gender and Law ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Dangerous Terrain: Mapping the Female Body in Gonzales V. Carhart. (Gender on the Frontiers: Confronting Intersectionalities)
- Author : Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 322 KB
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The body occupies an ambiguous position within the law. It is, in one sense, the quintessential object of state regulatory and police power. (1) The body is the object that the state acts both upon and for; the body of the individual may, indeed, be subject to regulation and even physical intrusion in the name of the state's power and duty to protect the health and safety of the "body politic." (2) At the same time, the body is often constructed (3) in legal discourse as the site of personhood--our most intimate, sacred, and inviolate possession--implying that it is in some sense beyond the reach of the law. (4) The inherent tension between these two concepts of the body permeates the law, but it is perhaps nowhere more prominent than in the constitutional doctrine pertaining to abortion. Abortion is one of the most heavily regulated medical procedures in the United States, and yet it is at the same time the subject of relatively robust constitutional privacy protections--often even treated as synonymous with the word "privacy" itself. (5)