The politics of abortion rights and activism

Abstract

Abortion rights activism operates on multiple fronts to help achieve abortion access for those who need it. More recently work on legislative and policy change has been decentred, with focus directed towards ensuring direct access to abortion, supporting abortion seekers, educating the public and challenging abortion stigma. Social movements and politics have much to learn from abortion rights activism and movement building strategies in particular with increasing far right politics and attempts to limit gender rights. These papers will take a global, regional and national level approach to examine the strategies used by abortion rights activists in multiple spheres. The papers reject the centrality of the state to abortion politics and access, indicating new pathways towards abortion rights and access and a new politics of abortion.

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Women make Waves: Dutch International Abortion Activism	View Paper Details
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Challenging coalitions: building networks for abortion change in Malta	View Paper Details