You Are Endangered as a Citizen | Online Only | n+1 | Judith Levine, Rickie Solinger
Criminalization does increase the risk of physical harm. But that is basically a consumer protection argument: It’s not safe enough. The fact is that whether anyone ever climbed on an abortion table or not, the message of criminalization to all people who can get pregnant is: You don’t have dominion over your own body, you are always vulnerable, always in danger of being surveilled. You are vulnerable not only because the law makes behavior a crime and you can be punished for committing a crime.
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