Janet Gallagher

Home institution

American Civil Liberties Union

Research project

Abortion Choices: Pastoral Counseling, Disposition of Fetal Remains, and Post-Abortion Rituals

A critical examination of anti-choice appropriation of religious symbols and rituals involving fetal remains and a search for ways to deal with such remains without forcing a rigid ideological category or name on the lived religious and emotional realities of individual women.

Course

HDS 2811: Women's Political Activism, Litigation, and the Religious Conscience: Seminar (Fall 1998)