Backlash or Widening the Gap?: Women’s Reproductive Rights in the Twenty-First Century
This article examines legal challenges to women’s reproductive rights in Ireland and the United States, arguing that backlash against reproductive rights is a consequence of the long unsettled position of women’s reproductive freedom in liberal democracies and the catalogue of ri...
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| description | This article examines legal challenges to women’s reproductive rights in Ireland and the United States, arguing that backlash against reproductive rights is a consequence of the long unsettled position of women’s reproductive freedom in liberal democracies and the catalogue of rights. It examines the legal foundations of reproductive rights and their perceived conflicts with other values, such as religion, and focuses on the current legal challenges to women’s bodily autonomy regarding choice and motherhood. It demonstrates the many contexts in which women have not acquired full reproductive freedom, and explores the nature of the current backlash. It argues that the nature of the backlash is not simply a reclamation of what has been legally guaranteed, but instead a deepening of the preexisting divides within reproductive justice globally. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-084b54be64e54e339295c6d7b06a45222022-12-22T04:03:45ZengMDPI AGLaws2075-471X2020-02-0191810.3390/laws9010008laws9010008Backlash or Widening the Gap?: Women’s Reproductive Rights in the Twenty-First CenturyDorota Anna Gozdecka0Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, FinlandThis article examines legal challenges to women’s reproductive rights in Ireland and the United States, arguing that backlash against reproductive rights is a consequence of the long unsettled position of women’s reproductive freedom in liberal democracies and the catalogue of rights. It examines the legal foundations of reproductive rights and their perceived conflicts with other values, such as religion, and focuses on the current legal challenges to women’s bodily autonomy regarding choice and motherhood. It demonstrates the many contexts in which women have not acquired full reproductive freedom, and explores the nature of the current backlash. It argues that the nature of the backlash is not simply a reclamation of what has been legally guaranteed, but instead a deepening of the preexisting divides within reproductive justice globally.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-471X/9/1/8reproductive rightsaccess to abortionglobal gag rulepopulism |
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| title | Backlash or Widening the Gap?: Women’s Reproductive Rights in the Twenty-First Century |
| title_full | Backlash or Widening the Gap?: Women’s Reproductive Rights in the Twenty-First Century |
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| title_short | Backlash or Widening the Gap?: Women’s Reproductive Rights in the Twenty-First Century |
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