Care and Pregnancy Loss

Authors

Chelsea Phillips, Villanova UniversityFollow

Author Biography

Chelsea Phillips is Associate Professor of Theatre and Studio Art at Villanova University. Her research focuses on gender, performance, celebrity, the eighteenth century, and Shakespeare and has appeared or is forthcoming in Theatre Survey, Theatre Journal, Eighteenth Century Studies, Shakespeare, Women’s History, and several edited collections. She is the author of Carrying All Before Her: Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage 1689-1800 (University of Delaware Press, 2022).

Abstract

In the wake of the Dobbs decision, new legislation across the U.S. has created ambiguity around the access to and legality of interventions for pregnancy loss in certain states. This essay situates our current legal landscape in opposition to that of the eighteenth-century, where care and preservation of the pregnant person were a guiding priority.

Keywords

Dobbs, reproductive care, pregnancy and pregnancy loss, women's history, abortion

Recommended Citation

Phillips, Chelsea (2023) "Care and Pregnancy Loss," ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830: Vol.13: Iss.2, Article 16.
http://doi.org/10.5038/2157-7129.13.2.1382
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol13/iss2/16