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Revision as of 10:08, 13 September 2013
Anti-abortion movements advocate against the practice of induced abortion, both through seeking legal bans, counseling, adoption services and other means. Modern anti-abortion movements generally began as countermovements in response to the decriminalization and legalization of elective abortion in various countries. The Virginia Society for Human Life was founded in 1967 and is the oldest Pro Life organization in the country.[1][2][3][4] The National Right to Life Committee was formed in 1968 five years before the Roe Vs. Wade US Supreme Court decision.
Terminology
Many of the terms used in the debate are seen as political framing: terms used to validate one's own stance while invalidating the opposition's. For example, the labels "pro-choice" and "pro-life" imply endorsement of widely held values such as liberty and freedom, while suggesting that the opposition must be "anti-choice" or "anti-life" (alternatively "pro-coercion" or "pro-death").[5] These views do not always fall along a binary; in one Public Religion Research Institute poll, seven in ten Americans described themselves as "pro-choice" while almost two-thirds described themselves as "pro-life."[6] The Associated Press favors the terms "abortion rights" and "anti-abortion" instead.[7]
United States
Anti-abortion advocacy in the United States is centered around the United States pro-life movement.
Europe
In Europe, abortion has been legalized through parliamentary acts. In Western Europe this has had the effect at once of both more closely regulating the use of abortion, and at the same time mediating and reducing the impact anti-abortion campaigns have had on the law.[8]
- In France, the first specifically anti-abortion organization, Laissez-les-vivre-SOS futures mères, was created in 1971 during the debate that was to lead to the Veil Law in 1975. Its main spokesman was the geneticist Jérôme Lejeune. Since 2005, the French anti-abortion movement has organized an annual March for Life in Paris attracting several thousand demonstrators.
- In the United Kingdom, the most prominent anti-abortion organization is the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children.
- In Spain, over one million demonstrators took part in a march in Madrid in October 2009 to protest plans by the government of José Luis Zapatero to legalize elective abortions and eliminate parental consent restrictions.[9]
Israel
In Israel, the major anti-abortion organization is Efrat.[10] Efrat activists primarily raise funds to relieve the "financial and social pressures" on pregnant women so that they will not terminate their pregnancies.[10] Efrat is not known to do any other kind of activism.[10]
See also
- Pro-life
- Susan B. Anthony List
- Right to life
- National Pro-Life Religious Council
- Eclipse of Reason
- Concerned Women for America
- Wisconsin Right to Life (an example of one of the many states in affiliation)
- Anti-abortion violence
- Abortion-rights movements
- Virginia Society for Human Life
- National Right to Life Committee
References
- ^ Nation's Oldest Right to Life Organization Supporting Thompson Standard News Wire.com, 20 December. Retrieved: 9 September 2013.
- ^ Fred Thompson Receives the Endorsement of Virginia Society for Human Life Presidency Project UCSB.EDU, 20 December 2007. Retrieved: 9 September 2013.
- ^ Moving forward
- ^ VSHL About Us
- ^ Holstein and Gubrium (2008). Handbook of Constructionist Research. Guilford Press.
- ^ "Committed to Availability, Conflicted about Morality: What the Millennial Generation Tells Us about the Future of the Abortion Debate and the Culture Wars". Public Religion Research Institute. June 9, 2011.
- ^ Goldstein, Norm, ed. The Associated Press Stylebook. Philadelphia: Basic Books, 2007.
- ^ Outshoorn, Joyce (1996). "The stability of compromise: Abortion politics in Western Europe". In Marianne Givens and Dorothy M. Stetson (ed.). Abortion politics: public policy in cross-cultural perspective. Routledge. p. 161.
...parliamentary decision are sustained by political parties which, in comparison to the United States, are deeply rooted in European society. The political parties have managed to regulate and pacify the political reform process, which in the decision-making stage marginalized opposition outside parliament.
- ^ "''Agence France Presse'', 17 October 2009". Google.com. 2009-10-17. Retrieved 2011-11-16.
- ^ a b c "Efrat". Friendsofefrat.org. Retrieved 2011-11-16.
Further reading
- Karrer, Robert N. "The National Right to Life Committee: Its Founding, Its History, and the Emergence of the Pro-Life Movement Prior to Roe V. Wade," Catholic Historical Review Volume 97, Number 3, July 2011 pp 527–557 in Project MUSE
