Author Description

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, rooted in an unarticulated patriarchy in the Supreme Court’s historical narrative, represents an untimely expression of deeply religious and conservative hostility towards women. Anti-Dobbs: An Interdisciplinary Polemic offers a contrasting viewpoint, asserting that abortion prohibitions are inherently anti-woman and that no valid arguments for restricting abortion exist without demeaning women. The abortion issue is a shadow cast by the law over a more fundamental question: the status and recognition of women as human beings and equal citizens. The book argues that expansive abortion rights are fundamental to women’s equality and asserts that Dobbs was profoundly wrong, both legally and morally. Based on over 20 years of the author’s experience teaching a course entitled "Law and Diversity in U.S. History," the work is a critical response and a polemic advocating for the equality of women who have been reduced by the Supreme Court to little more than "fetal containers." Anti-Dobbs: An Interdisciplinary Polemic "is a responsible book, a voice that speaks from authenticity, a brave voice without filters, with raw realities and overwhelming strength. A book that has a level of rawness that makes us question our arrival in the world. It is a wake-up call, and for those of us who are awake and if being human belongs to us, the question ‘what are we going to do about it?’ is brutal. I want to do something about it." —Mónica Salmón, clinical psychotherapist and best-selling author. "With this book, author Omar Swartz offers a deep dive into the issues surrounding the abortion debate in America after the devastating Dobbs decision of the Supreme Court. Swartz does a masterful job at providing a comprehensive context for the debate and the decision. He exposes a profound, systemic hatred of women, and attempts to utterly control them by the dangerous right-wing culture warriors, that has now actually moved to the level of state-