Buchbinder Mara
Hastings Cent Rep. 2018 Jul;48(4):44-45. doi: 10.1002/hast.869.
The scarlet "A" that the protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne's seventeenth-century novel is forced to pin to her dress symbolizes the shame and social disgrace that she endures for conceiving a child out of adultery. In Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, & Politics of Ordinary Abortion, Katie Watson argues that abortion is our era's scarlet letter: a mark of stigma that is invisible yet no less shameful, causing unnecessary cultural silences around what is a remarkably common practice. In this brilliant new book, Watson draws on legal proceedings, bioethics literature, and personal experience; offers cultural and literary analysis; and uses her unique vantage point as a lawyer, bioethicist, and medical educator to develop a thought-provoking and thoroughly fresh perspective on one of the most divisive moral issues of our time.
纳撒尼尔·霍桑17世纪小说中的女主人公被迫别在衣服上的红色“A”,象征着她因通奸怀孕而遭受的耻辱和社会不名誉。在《红色A:普通堕胎的伦理、法律与政治》一书中,凯蒂·沃森认为堕胎是我们这个时代的红字:一种耻辱的标志,虽无形却同样可耻,导致围绕这一极为常见的行为出现不必要的文化沉默。在这本精彩的新书中,沃森借鉴法律程序、生物伦理学文献和个人经历;进行文化和文学分析;并利用她作为律师、生物伦理学家和医学教育工作者的独特视角,对我们这个时代最具争议的道德问题之一提出了发人深省且全新的观点。