What’s Old is New Again: How State Attorneys General Can Reinvigorate UDAP Enforcement to Combat Crisis Pregnancy Center Deception

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Vlach
Keyword(s):  
Attorneys General ◽  
Crisis Pregnancy

Crisis Pregnancy and the Colonization of the Clinic

2019 ◽  
pp. 111-140
Author(s):  
Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz
Keyword(s):  
Homeland Security ◽  
Teen Pregnancy ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Teen Motherhood ◽  
Reproductive Politics ◽  
Security Culture ◽  
Health Clinics ◽  
Teen Mom ◽  
Crisis Pregnancy

This chapter explores how rhetorics of crisis have reshaped contemporary reproductive politics. First, it examines the significance of crisis teen pregnancy narratives in popular media (e.g., Juno, 16 and Pregnant, Glee, and Teen Mom) and how these narratives manage collective anxieties over abortion, adoption, and teen motherhood. It traces these trends alongside the colonization of comprehensive women’s health clinics by the evangelical crisis pregnancy center movement. The logic of homeland security culture, present in this case study through rhetorics of “crisis,” fuels the differential protection of domestic bodies and works to produce and reproduce national identity through the bodies of particular women and families.

The American Tradition of Private Law Enforcement

2004 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 1413-1429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul D. Carrington
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Business Decisions ◽  
Business Executives ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
Federal Constitutional ◽  
Attorneys General

The first thing for European lawyers to understand about American law is that the distinction between public and private law is in America seldom noticed. American judicial institutions, unlike those in most other countriees, were not designed merely to resolve civil disputes, but were fashioned for the additional purpose of facilitating private enforcement of what in other nations would generally be denoted as public law. This purpose reflects widespread mistrust of the political institutions and government officials upon whom American citizens would have to depend if private law enforcement were not available, as generally it is. That shared mistrust has ancient roots and is reflected in state and federal constitutional provisions assuring the weakness and ineptitude of American political institutions other than courts, and in the habit of Americans, observed in 1835 by the French observer de Tocqueville, to litigate issues they care most about. As a consequence of these conditions, substantial reliance for the regulation of business is placed on private plaintiffs. Much regulation is done ex post the regulated business conduct in the form of civil money judgments rather than ex ante in the form of official approval or disapproval. It is provided by lawyers serving as private attorneys general. Its aim is to keep business executives alert to the risks their business decisions may impose on others.

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