27: Punishing Reproductive Capacity Pt. 2 Flashcards
what has ultrasound technology and visual access done?
increased sentimentalisation of the fetus much more broadly in both religious and secular American culture
suggest an idea that parents within contemporary American culture should develop an emotional connection to their fetus before the fetus is born
argument for fetal personhood
story of a specific moral religious community seeking to impose its culturally specific notion of personhood onto a multicultural and secular political community through the mechanism of secular law
legal techniques
old laws applied and interpreted in new ways in alignment with new fetal personhood rubric
old laws amended to expand existing prescriptions and sanctions
expansion of legal protections to viable and non-visible fetuses
new laws applied in unintended ways against pregnant women
new laws created to create new prescriptions and sanctions
