Book contents
- The Abortion Act 1967
- Reviews
- Law in Context
- The Abortion Act 1967
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Table of Legislation
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Early Years
- 3 The Parliamentary Battle for Restrictive Reform
- 4 The Battle for Normalisation
- 5 The Battle for Legal Meaning
- 6 The Battle for Northern Ireland
- 7 The Parliamentary Battle for Modernising Reform
- 8 A Biography of the ‘Great Untouchable’
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - A Biography of the ‘Great Untouchable’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2022
- The Abortion Act 1967
- Reviews
- Law in Context
- The Abortion Act 1967
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Table of Legislation
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Early Years
- 3 The Parliamentary Battle for Restrictive Reform
- 4 The Battle for Normalisation
- 5 The Battle for Legal Meaning
- 6 The Battle for Northern Ireland
- 7 The Parliamentary Battle for Modernising Reform
- 8 A Biography of the ‘Great Untouchable’
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The concluding chapter sets out some of the key themes to emerge from the book. It recalls the influence of the various groups of actors who gave meaning to the Abortion Act, emphasising how the Act was shaped over time in a complex process of negotiation, dispute, revision and consolidation. We locate the Act within the shifting contours of a country undergoing a demographic revolution, exploring how it shaped and was shaped by processes of secularisation, the decline of discursive Christianity and an enhanced role for science in ordering understandings of the world, changing norms of gender, family and disability, shifting ideas of medical authority and changing technologies.
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- The Abortion Act 1967A Biography of a UK Law, pp. 263 - 284Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022