Reproductive Rights and Anti-Abortion Governance

Abstract

Conflicts over reproductive rights have become pivotal arenas in which wider struggles over gender, democracy, and social order unfold. Across settings ranging from Germany and Brazil to Mexico and Serbia, anti-abortion actors deploy moral pressure, legal obstruction, institutional power, and nationalist narratives to restrict reproductive autonomy and reshape the meaning of citizenship. The papers in this panel trace how harassment at clinic doors, the tightening of criminal law, the strategic use of constitutional provisions, and the revival of pronatalist projects reinforce one another and produce uneven terrains of vulnerability and resistance. They show how anti-abortion agendas draw strength from religious networks, conservative parties, and transnational anti-gender alliances, while also exposing the fractures and contradictions within these coalitions. Taken together, the contributions highlight the political, legal, and affective forces that sustain anti-abortion projects and illuminate how reproductive rights become central to broader contests over bodily integrity, democratic authority, and the governance of gendered life.

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Backlash Against Abortion but not Same-Sex Marriage? Explaining Variation in Resistance against Contentious Gender Policy in Latin America	View Paper Details
Between Stigmatization and Solidarity: Anti-Choice Harassment and Abortion Accompaniment in Germany	View Paper Details
Beyond “gender backlash”. Political economy of biological and social reproduction in Poland.	View Paper Details
Population Policies and Anti-Gender Narratives in Serbia	View Paper Details