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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Pro-Choice"”.
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Abortion in Malta : reviewing the legal stance from a pro-choice perspective
… in the field of medicine have made the abortion procedure effortless, and most importantly, safe. When performed under the appropriate professional supervision, both medical and surgical induced abortions are effective and have minimal side effects. A brief analysis of the history of abortion …
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PRO-CHOICE? SOCIAL AND LEGAL CONSTRICTIONS UPON WOMEN’S ABILITY TO CHOOSE MEDICATION ABORTION
… in Wyoming in 2020. The FDA’s abortifacient protocol is more restrictive than medically necessary to ensure women’s safety. For example, although the FDA expanded medication abortions for use up to ten weeks of gestation in 2016 from the previous seven-week limit, studies show safety and …
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Interactive Framing Dynamics and Ideological Boundaries in the American Abortion Debate
… the interactive nature of strategic framing processes of the American pro-life and pro-choice movements and the process whereby movements borrow and co-opt language and imagery from opposing movements. Illustrated by two case studies of reactive and strategic counterframing in the pro-choice …
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Media Frames and Abortion Issue Polarization
… articles that use incongruent abortion frames (pro-life/pro-abortion & anti-abortion/pro-choice) may be contributing to an ingroup versus outgroup mentality by highlighting who is the ingroup and who is the outgroup, thus generating moral disgust and polarization (characterized by anger, bias, …
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Attitude Change in Inductively and Deductively Organized Ethical Belief Structures
… first experiment explored these issues from a pro-life perspective and the second experiment from a pro-choice perspective. Deductive and inductive logic were proposed as ways to organize beliefs in these domains. Participants rated agreement with the behavior of the protagonist in four …
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The Social Construction of Deviance, Activism, and Identity in Women's Accounts of Abortion
… its opposing factions popularly identified as pro-choice and pro-life, is reliant upon identifiable narratives of abortion's value to women and society and, alternately, its harms. This dissertation traces more than one hundred years of evolution of popular rhetoric surrounding the practice of …
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Geographies of Feminist Activism in Berlin and Dublin: Hybrid Feminist Counterpublic Spaces of Resistance
… I ask how the spatial tactics of feminist groups/projects in two European capital cities, Berlin and Dublin, call attention to violence at multiple scales. Feminist resistance has traditionally been classified according to ‘waves’ of feminism, with the most recent ‘fourth wave’ characterised by …
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Gauging Longevity: Canada’s Post-Decriminalization Abortion Rights Movement, 1988-2018
… a constitutional ruling that decriminalized the procedure nationwide and makes Canada distinct in terms of how abortion is legislated globally. While second wave feminists led early reform efforts in the late 1960s that secured this victory, the struggle continues. Over the past thirty years, a …
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Fetus: An Exploration of Human Nature Through the Issue of Abortion
… fetus is an act of murder. The supporters of the Pro-Choice movement, however, believe that a woman has the right to choose what happens with her body, and this takes precedence over other considerations. This work of fiction uses the above controversy as its framework. The primary narrator is a …
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An Ethical Analysis of Reproductive Justice in the Context of the Egenics Movement in the United States
… and communities. Negative eugenics as genetic proof of low intelligence, low possibility, and low productivity fed the system of compulsory sterilization even though the science proved faulty and incorrect. As advances in medical technology and genetic science increases, eugenics is making a …
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Covert Abortion Networks: How Civil Society Subverts the State and Provides Abortion, No Matter What
… ability of Covert Abortion Networks (CANs) to provide abortion access in the face of legal threats and the erosion of the access environment. CANs operate across a variety of legal and practical contexts to help people access abortions, no matter what. A common refrain in the pro-choice …
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Modernism's Scarlet Letter: Plotting Abortion in American Fiction, 1900--1945
… In the days before sex-ed classes and pro-life and pro-choice abortion rhetorics, these abortion plots taught readers how to look for, shop for, talk about, and respond to illegal abortions. Their plottings of abortion also freighted abortion with heavy political baggage. Writing …
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Developing an Empirically Valid Function Acquisition Speed Test for Assessing Attitudes to and Predicting Real-world Behaviour
… consisting of those with openly expressed pro-life or pro-choice attitudes, were exposed to an Implicit Association Test (IAT), a FAST procedure, an explicit attitudes to abortion questionnaire, and a demographic survey. This procedure allowed for a comparison of FAST and IAT outcomes, …