Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: CONSTITUTIONAL VALUES AND REGULATORY REGIMES -- 1. The Constitutionalization of Abortion -- 2. Abortion in Portugal: New Trends in European Constitutionalism -- 3. Women's Rights in the Abortion Decision of the Slovak Constitutional Court -- 4. Proportionality in the Constitutional Review of Abortion Law -- 5. A Functionalist Approach to Comparative Abortion Law -- PART II: PROCEDURAL JUSTICE AND LIBERAL ACCESS -- 6. The Procedural Turn: Abortion at the European Court of Human Rights -- 7. The Struggle Against Informal Rules on Abortion in Argentina -- 8. Reforming African Abortion Laws and Practice: The Place of Transparency -- PART III: FRAMING AND CLAIMING RIGHTS -- 9. The Medical Framework and Early Medical Abortion in the U.K.: How Can a State Control Swallowing? -- 10. The Right to Conscience -- 11. Catholic Constitutionalism on Sex, Women, and the Beginning of Life -- 12. Bringing Abortion into the Brazilian Public Debate: Legal Strategies for Anencephalic Pregnancy -- 13. Toward Transformative Equality in Nepal: The Lakshmi Dhikta Decision -- PART IV: NARRATIVES AND SOCIAL MEANING -- 14. Reckoning with Narratives of Innocent Suffering in Transnational Abortion Litigation -- 15. Narratives of Prenatal Personhood in Abortion Law -- 16. Stigmatized Meanings of Criminal Abortion Law -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation, Treaties, and Other Relevant Instruments -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments.