Michelle Oberman, J.D., M.P.H., is the Alexander Professor of Law, Santa Clara University; author, Her Body, Our Laws: On the Frontlines of the Abortion War from El Salvador to Oklahoma (2018).
J Law Med Ethics. 2018 Sep;46(3):665-671. doi: 10.1177/1073110518804221.
This article considers the impact of laws and policies that determine who experiences unplanned pregnancy, who has abortions, and how economic status shapes one's response to unplanned pregnancy. There is a well-documented correlation between abortion and poverty: poor women have more abortions than do their richer sisters. Equally well-documented is the correlation between unplanned pregnancy and poverty. Finally, the high cost of motherhood for poor women and their offspring manifests in disproportionately high lifelong rates of poverty, ill-health and mortality for offspring and mothers, alike. Read together, these factors offer a vivid illustration of the medicalization of poverty.
本文考虑了法律和政策的影响，这些法律和政策决定了谁经历意外怀孕、谁进行堕胎，以及经济状况如何影响人们对意外怀孕的反应。堕胎和贫困之间存在着有充分记录的关联：贫困妇女比富裕妇女堕胎更多。同样有充分记录的是意外怀孕和贫困之间的关联。最后，贫困妇女及其子女生育的高成本表现为其后代和母亲的终生贫困率、健康状况不佳和死亡率都过高。这些因素放在一起，生动地说明了贫困的医学化。
