‘Pro-Life Feminism’? Contemporary Rhetoric of Organized Abortion Opposition in Germany
Opposing abortion with arguments centered around the supposed best interest of women might seem counter-intuitive but has been identified as a common strategy of ‘pro-life’ movements around the globe. Drawing from interviews conducted with German ‘pro-life’ women, this article proposes to analyze a...
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| description | Opposing abortion with arguments centered around the supposed best interest of women might seem counter-intuitive but has been identified as a common strategy of ‘pro-life’ movements around the globe. Drawing from interviews conducted with German ‘pro-life’ women, this article proposes to analyze a ‘pro-life feminist’ rhetoric, in which specific ideas of equality, structural discrimination, empowerment, and care-work serve to incriminate abortion in new ways. Adapting to current subjectivities while at the same time holding on to traditional views on gender, sexuality, and family allows for ‘pro-life’ activists to strive toward a future in which they wish abortion to no longer exist. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-aadb01b7dc81452192340b621342b9e32025-08-21T12:47:07ZengHelsinki University PressRedescriptions2308-09142025-07-0128122–3922–3910.33134/rds.446446‘Pro-Life Feminism’? Contemporary Rhetoric of Organized Abortion Opposition in GermanyJuliette Brillet Reutter0Institute for Sociology LMU Munich, DE; CRESPPA-GTM ParisOpposing abortion with arguments centered around the supposed best interest of women might seem counter-intuitive but has been identified as a common strategy of ‘pro-life’ movements around the globe. Drawing from interviews conducted with German ‘pro-life’ women, this article proposes to analyze a ‘pro-life feminist’ rhetoric, in which specific ideas of equality, structural discrimination, empowerment, and care-work serve to incriminate abortion in new ways. Adapting to current subjectivities while at the same time holding on to traditional views on gender, sexuality, and family allows for ‘pro-life’ activists to strive toward a future in which they wish abortion to no longer exist.https://account.journal-redescriptions.org/index.php/uh-j-rptchft/article/view/446abortionpro-life movementsexual politicssocial movementsgermany |
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| title | ‘Pro-Life Feminism’? Contemporary Rhetoric of Organized Abortion Opposition in Germany |
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| title_short | ‘Pro-Life Feminism’? Contemporary Rhetoric of Organized Abortion Opposition in Germany |
| title_sort | pro life feminism contemporary rhetoric of organized abortion opposition in germany |
| topic | abortion pro-life movement sexual politics social movements germany |
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