Sherri

by Emelie Svensson

333 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2024

Reviews

[h3dda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Riktigt bra skriven. En historia jag inte kände till!

[Heidi · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was such an incredibly important book about the development of abortion rights in the US and also how it can be linked to Sweden (because the author of the book is a foreign correspondent for Swedish press). Anyway, it starts in the 1960s when Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 29 years old and moves to Sweden for a legal research project in Lund. How could I have missed that RBG lived in Sweden and also spoke Swedish and that this experience then strongly influenced her liberal views and work for human rights? Other important milestones for US abortion rights also occurred in the 1960s when Sherri Chessen went to Sweden as an abortion refugee because she had taken thalidomide during her pregnancy without knowing that this would harm the fetus. Unfortunately, the hospital in Arizona does not allow this procedure and she is forced to flee to Sweden to have her abortion done at the Karolinska Hospital, which causes a big media stir. The book then goes through how the right to abortion is gradually tightened, ending on June 24, 2022, when the Supreme Court overruled both Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in the Dobbs case on originalist grounds that a right to abortion cannot be found in the U.S. Constitution. And here we are with thousands of ameircan women at risk of dying because no doctor is allowed to advise them where to get an abortion (if it is illegal in their state) or cannot afford to travel to the states where abortion is allowed. In addition, several states have introduced new laws making “abortion trafficking” to other states illegal and subject to severe penalties. The sad thing is how quickly things has changed and that there are much stricter prohibitions now than there ever were in the 1960s.

[alva · Rating 4 out of 5]

Intressant och högaktuell läsning om aborträtten och dess historia i USA och i Sverige. Boken släpptes innan presidentvalet i november, att läsa den nu gör lite extra ont.

[Vera Frankenberg · Rating 2 out of 5]

Alltså handlingen var 5/5!! Intressant och lärorikt men språket var störigt.