Published in 2025
208 pages
Kylie Cheung is a reporter at Abortion, Everyday where she reports on reproductive rights and gender-based violence, and a former staff writer at Jezebel. She is the author of Survivor Injustice: State-Sanctioned Abuse, Domestic Violence, and the Fight for Bodily Autonomy. Her work has been published in Salon, Teen Vogue, Guardian and Ms. Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn.
What is this book about?
“A searing investigation into the intersecting structures that control the lives of women and pregnant people” —Lit Hub
“Clear-eyed and cutting … calls into question the very notion that America is an advanced society, let alone a just one.” —Publishers Weekly
“A compelling and timely examination of the state of abortion access in the United States … Cheung is bipartisan in her criticism, skewering both conservatives and Democrats’ inaction on abortion rights and inattention to the suffering of Palestinian women and children in Gaza” —Library Journal
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 are not unintended consequences but deliberate acts of state violence against women and pregnant people within a system where certain lives are designated as expendable.
This book is for everyone coming to terms with these realities amid the ongoing, alarming rollback of our bodily autonomy.
