An old, horrifying way to undermine women’s autonomy resurfaces.
. As such, they have a vested interest in fighting sensible regulations that protect women, and their interests are inherently at odds with those of their patients.Whole Woman’s Health, Louisiana put it this way“Abortion providers and their patients have an obvious conflict in the inevitable tradeoff between cost and safety. … Women have an interest in ensuring their own health and safety when they choose to obtain an abortion.
Deputy Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall, the Trump administration’s attorney, further insisted that the interests of abortion physicians and patients “are not necessarily aligned. One is the interest of for-profit providers and not being regulated in particular ways. The other is the interest of women in their own health and safety.” It sounds like a claim about female autonomy, but in fact it’s a claim rooted in doubts about female autonomy.
There has always been a paradox that lies in centering abortion rights in the provider—one that we tend to elide in modern debates about doctrine. At one point, in the early abortion battles, doctors and pregnant women really were at odds: In her essential new book,professor Michele Goodwin of the University of California, Irvine, recounts the early history of American gynecology, including Marion Sims, the “grandfather of gynecology” who conducted his experiments on the female slaves he rented.
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