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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2024-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2024-0009 |
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