Coercion - Surviving and Resisting Abortion Bans

'Kylie Cheung writes some of the most important dispatches from the front lines of women and marginalized people getting their rights systemically stripped around the world' - Kat Tenbarge

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, the horrors inflicted by abortion bans began immediately and haven't stopped. These laws have become a tool for abusers, as pregnant people face legal harassment, reproductive coercion, and life-threatening medical trauma.

Through biting analysis, Kylie Cheung argues that these aren't unintended consequences, but deliberate acts of state-perpetrated violence inflicted on women and pregnant people, particularly those with the least resources and agency under capitalism and white supremacy.

Capitalism has always consciously decided whose lives are expendable. This book is for everyone coming to terms with this fact in the era of the rollback of our bodily autonomy.

Introduction

1. The New Post-Dobbs Order

2. Domestic Violence, Medical Violence, and Anti-Abortion Violence

3. How Abusers Weaponize Pregnancy in the Legal System

4. Reproductive Coercion

5. The Criminalization of Victimhood and Pregnancy

6. Trapped: Pregnancy in the Carceral System

7. The Medicalization of Abuse

8. The Mythology of Rape Exceptions

9. How Liberalism Abandoned Reproductive Justice

Conclusion: Beyond Roe