Artificial Intimacy: Reviews, Blurbs and Where to Buy

My second book is to be published by NewSouth Books (Australia and New Zealand) on 1 May 2021. Columbia University Press are publishing it in the remainder of the English-Speaking World.

Here are some snippets from blurbs and from independent reviews, together with information on places to preorder or buy the book.

The Tragedy of the Unwanted Child: What Ancient Cultures Did Before Abortion

“Pro-lifers” consider the termination of a pregnancy the moral equivalent of taking a newborn life. Their strategies seek to blur distinctions between aborting a fetus and killing a newborn. I argue that an understanding of that relationship—drawing on evidence from centuries of history and millennia of evolution—leads to the conclusion that abortion is the most humane alternative to infanticide, adding to the case for safe, legal, accessible abortion for women who need it.