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Marta Kolankiewicz

Marta Kolankiewicz

Studierektor I Universitetslektor

Marta Kolankiewicz

Rights Claims in Anti-abortion Campaigns in Poland and Sweden

Författare

  • Rebecca Selberg
  • Marta Kolankiewicz

Summary, in English

This chapter presents two case analyses, one situated in Sweden and the other in Poland, where attempts have been made to intervene in the existing laws regulating access to abortion. The first case involves the lawsuits filed by midwives in Sweden who claimed to have been discriminated against on the grounds of their religion when they had been turned down for work due to their objection to performing abortion as part of the job description. The second is that of a Polish civic legislative initiative aimed at restricting the prevailing abortion legislation in Poland in cases of foetal anomalies. We explore the rights claims deployed in these anti-abortion campaigns with an aim to contribute to the growing feminist scholarship on rhetorical devices and mobilisation tactics employed in the struggles over access to abortion. The two cases illustrate how anti-abortion mobilisations have been using rights claims that traditionally had been employed by feminist movements fighting for access to abortion. While it can be observed that this trend is part of a broader development of what has been described as a transnational anti-gender movement's appeal to the law, our analyses illustrate different and context-sensitive ways in which rights claims are articulated.

Avdelning/ar

  • Genusvetenskapliga institutionen
  • LU profilområde: Mänskliga rättigheter

Publiceringsår

2023-06

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

155-177

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Struggles for Reproductive Justice in the Era of Anti-Genderism and Religious Fundamentalism

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

Palgrave Macmillan

Ämne

  • Gender Studies

Nyckelord

  • Abortion
  • Rights claims
  • Sweden
  • Poland

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 978-3-031-31260-1
  • ISBN: 978-3-031-31259-5