Region: North America
USA- Racist anti-choice policies and activists
TWO STORIES: Anti-choice movement’s racist harassment of black women as told by Katie &
Immigrant minor held ‘hostage’ by Texas because she wants an abortion, by Tina Vasquez.
CANADA- The Politics of Abortion in Canada after Morgentaler: Women’s Rights as Citizenship Rights
This dissertation explores the regulation of abortion in Canada following the landmark R v Morgentaler decision (1988), which struck down Canada’s existing abortion law, causing the procedure’s subsequent reclassification as a healthcare issue. The resulting fragility of abortion rights is still evident in the varying provincial regulations governing the nature of access to the procedure. While access has been accepted as the new terrain of abortion rights, research into this area to date has taken a largely national focus, surveying provincial barriers and compiling lists of potential motivations for differences in service.
USA- “The stakes are so high”: interviews with progressive journalists reporting on abortion
News frames can influence public and policy agendas, proponents of abortion access should be concerned with how this issue is covered in the news. While previous research has examined the content of news on abortion, this analysis explores the process of news-making on abortion, examining how journalists understand their role in and experience of covering abortion.