Argues that when the state intervenes in decisions regarding pregnancies, it falsely views the woman and the fetus as having conflicting needs. This book discusses state intervention into women's decision-making during pregnancies carried to term. It examines effective family-planning strategies that help women in making reproductive choices.

Colker argues that theology can contribute to our understanding if we apply the concepts of love, compassion, and wisdom to problems identified by feminist theory and to actual concrete situations: the impact of abortion regulations on poor female adolescents; the judicial treatment of abortion regulations; state intervention into women's decision-making during pregnancies carried to term. Colker concludes by examining effective and respectful family-planning strategies that truly help women in making reproductive choices.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION:
ABORTION ADN DIALOGUE
PART ONE
FEMINISM AND THEOLOGY
CHAPTER ONE
Aspirations:
An Authentic Self Embedded in Love, Compassion, and Wisdom
CHAPTER TWO
The Critique:
The Problems of Consciousness and Sexual Objectification
PART TWO
WOMENSO VOICE
CHAPTER THREE
Testimonials
CHAPTER FOUR
Empirical Data
PART THREE
CHAPTER FIVE
An Equality Perspective:
Anti-Subordination Above ALl
CHAPTER SIX
Roe v. Wade
CHAPTER SEVEN
Webster v. Reproductive Health
Services:
WhereOs the Feminist Argument?
CHAPTER EIGHT
MATERNITY CASES
AFTERWORD
TOWARD CHOICE AND LIFE
APPENDIX
TABLE OF CASES
INDEX