A Fragmented Landscape: Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe

Since World War II, abortion policies have remained remarkably varied across European nations, with struggles over abortion rights at the forefront of national politics. This volume analyses European abortion governance and explores how social movements, political groups, and individuals use protests and resistance to influence abortion policy. Drawing on case studies from Italy, Spain, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the European Union, it analyses the strategies and discourses of groups seeking to liberalise or restrict reproductive rights. It also illuminates the ways that reproductive rights politics intersect with demographic anxieties, as well as the rising nationalisms and xenophobia related to austerity policies, mass migration and the recent terrorist attacks in Europe.

A Fragmented Landscape -- Protest, Culture and Society -- A Fragmented Landscape - Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe - Edited by Silvia De Zordo, Joanna Mishtaland Lorena Anton -- Contents -- Introduction by Silvia De Zordo, Joanna Mishtal, Lorena Anton -- Part I - Pro-abortion Rights Activism, Movements, Strategies, and Protest Logics -- Chapter 1 - Legal and Political Discourses on Women's Right to Abortion by Christina Zampas -- Chapter 2 - Freeing Abortion in Sweden by Annulla Linders and Danielle Bessett -- Chapter 3 - Women's Liberation and the 'Right to Choose' - Struggling for Abortion in the United Kingdom and Switzerland by Kristina Schulz and Leena Schmitter -- Part II - Anti-abortion Rights Activism, Movements, Strategies, and Protest Logics -- Chapter 4 - Contesting Abortion Rights in Contemporary Italy - Discourses and Practices of Pro-life Activism by Claudia Mattalucci -- Chapter 5 - Innocence and Demographic Crisis - Transposing Post-abortion Syndrome into a Russian Orthodox Key by Sonja Luehrmann -- Chapter 6 - Still a Woman's Right? - Feminist and Other Discourses in Belgium's Abortion Struggles by Karen Celis and Gily Coene -- Part III - Health Professionals'/Providers' Involvement in the Pro- or Anti-abortion Rights Debateand Access to Services -- Chapter 7 - 'Good Doctors Do Not Object' - Obstetricians-Gynaecologists' Perspectives on Conscientious Objection to Abortion Care and their Engagement with Pro-abortion Rights Protests in Italy by Silvia De Zordo -- Chapter 8 - Women Rights or 'Unborn' Rights? - Laws and Loopholes in Madrid's Public Healthcare Services' Abortion Provision to Migrant Women by Beatriz Aragón Martín -- Chapter 9 - One Step Forward and Two Steps Back - Accessing Abortion in Norway by Mette Løkeland