Justifying the Necessity of Anti-Abortion Legislation: An Exploratory Analysis of Moral Panic Style in American Pro-Life Advocacy and Media Discourses

Since the 1980s, abortion has been “labeled a source of great and bitter political conflict” (Gusfield, 1981). After Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the discourse surrounding it reached a point where the U.S. debated if a fetus should receive personhood (Zernike, 2024). Consequentially...

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Main Author: Pîrciu Alexandru
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2024-12-01
Series:Gender Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2024-0009
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