Law and the politics of reproduction

Question 1

The geography of abortion

Answer 1

Calkin et al (2022)

Question 2

Political geography of abortion

Answer 2

Calkin (2019)

Question 3

Spatial politics of architecture and abortion

Answer 3

Brown (2013)

Question 4

All politics is reproductive politics

Answer 4

Briggs (2018)

Question 5

Political power of popular culture

Answer 5

Barent-Weiser (2018)

Question 6

Overview (popular book) of global abortion politics
Abortion bans don’t stop abortion from happening

Answer 6

Bloomer & Pierson (2018)

Question 7

• No evidence that abortion causes negaitve wellbeing outcomes
• Being denied an abortion is associated with higher levels of anxiety, stress and low self-esteem

Answer 7

Biggs et al (2017, 2018, 2020)

Question 8

Abortion trails and technology.
Research gap in embodied experiences - we could think of social practices enabling/impacting abortion as a field of affect
Research gap in materialities - pill re-orienting access to healthcare

Answer 8

Calkin & Freeman (2019)

Question 9

Victorian Present

Answer 9

Moore (2018)

Question 10

Womb as nomospheric setting

Womb is a site of discourses that is legally constituted with complex boundaries and legal contestations, articulating with other scales up to the global.

Answer 10

Delaney (2010)

Question 11

South Africa case study: discourses on community cohesiveness/postcolonialism used to justify abortion access, which was positioned as a key part of political emancipation.
Women’s rights are tied to notions of religion, culture and nation

Answer 11

Bloomer & Pierson (2018)

Question 12

Romanian case study. Abortion entirely banned in 1996 due to falling birth rates and state has enrolled a variety of geographical scales in the surveillance of pregnancies, such as controlling access to clinical space and equipment - the hospital as a key monitoring site and the enrolment of medical professionals into regulation

Answer 12

From Calkin et al (2022)

Links to Brown (2013) on the clinic; TRAP laws that target providers; and Reagan (1997) on the role of the medical association in criminalising abortion

Question 13

Queering abortion law in Argentina.
A shift towards including trans rights in a 2016 bill that declares the legal status of abortion.
Legal categories focus on some at the expense of others

Answer 13

Sutton & Borland (2018)

Links to Delaney (2015) on how law classifies and calls entities into being

Question 14

Transgender abortion patients
Up to 530 transgender patients obtained abortions in the USA in 2017
23% of clinics provided transgender-specific care

Answer 14

Jones et al (2020)