Abstract
This article examines how women crossed local and national borders in order to obtain abortions despite laws and religious injunctions that forbade abortion. Investigating that travel reveals transnational networks of information and assistance among abortion providers, physicians, feminists, and others; it also makes visible how changing laws changed patterns of abortion travel. This article considers travelling for abortion from the 19th through the 21st century primarily by North Americans and Europeans who travelled across borders, oceans, and continents to many different countries around the world in order to obtain abortions.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 337-352 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Journal of Modern European History |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 1 2019 |
Keywords
- Abortion travel
- human rights
- illegal abortion
- refugees
- women's rights
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- History