Abortion rights and democracy: An introduction

Abstract

The introductory chapter presents the volume s driving ideas and provides a general framework to understand the chapters that follow, including the theoretical and political utility of thinking about abortion in relation to democracy. This introduction both provides a synthetic examination of the themes of the book and addresses issues that are more submerged or absent in the individual chapters in order to advance the book s overall contribution. This piece also outlines the different book sections and places them in dialogue with each other.