Authors:Gillian Calder Abstract: Transgender and non-binary communities are facing shifting challenges on many fronts. The volume at the heart of this review essay is comprised of a collection of articles, sprung from a conference in Canada in May of 2019. They sit next to each other in conversation, creating an opportunity to broaden questions of the connections and dissonances between trans legal studies and other areas of critical legal inquiry. As argued by one of the authors, Samuel Singer, “Telling some of trans people’s legal stories also helps render visible the trans legal subject, which, albeit constituted within the narrative constraints of the legal system, brings us closer to centring trans people as legal actors.” Paying attention to the diverse stories of trans peoples, many of whom are living in the margins of Canadian society, shines an inclusive light on the plurality of their issues, stories, and lived experiences. PubDate: Sun, 24 Apr 2022 08:56:48 -070
Authors:Leela de Paula Abstract: Across the United States, fake abortion clinics calling themselves “crisis pregnancy centers” (CPCs) are being set up in record numbers by pro-life organizations. These centers operate to compromise the reproductive autonomy of women by dissuading them from getting abortions, disproportionately targeting women from minority communities through deceitful advertisement, scientific misinformation, and false promises of after-birth care. Despite their highly questionable practices, CPCs have little to no regulation as compared to real abortion clinics, relying on legal technicalities and conservative political support in state legislatures for their ongoing operation. An analysis of their legality shows a history of court cases and legislation challenging their existence, often overturned in their favor by conservative forces, and the potential of a few ongoing cases to grant them further influence in communities by limiting abortion access. However, there are promising options to undermine their current legal standing using both medical and consumer laws. As abortion rights stand to be overturned in the Supreme Court, it is important to recognize the CPCs’ crucial role in the anti-abortion movement and to curb their growing influence by limiting their scope of operation through the law and other forms of legal action. PubDate: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 15:16:16 -070
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