Even after abortions became illegal in the US, women continued to have them. Practitioners did their work behind closed doors or in private homes. Women without financial means often resorted to dangerous or deadly measures. Although Roe v. Wade made abortion nationally legal in 1973, over 1,074 restrictive laws have been passed by states in efforts to make abortion as inaccessible as possible. More than a quarter of these laws were passed between 2014 and 2015. If history repeats itself, we could see a resurgence of unsafe abortion practices in the United States.
This reading touches different informed consent laws and the intent and impact of implementing such laws. Neoliberalism also increases the state’s power over women’s bodies through increased abortion restrictions and control over medicine.
Informed consent laws vary greatly from state to state, so even though nationally abortion is legal, many boundaries such as the social pressures implicated by informed consent can arise.
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