Introduction: Putting Unsafe Abortion on the Development Agenda

Cornwall, Andréa; Standing, Hilary; Lynch, Andrea

doi:10.1111/j.1759-5436.2008.tb00456.x

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“…where access can also be inequitable, is evidently also a development issue, due to the numerous inequalities and the denial of rights that abortion-seekers face. Cornwall, Standing, and Lynch (2008) provide ample rationale to apply these concepts to developed countries, too. They argue that unwanted pregnancies and abortions are linked to wider development challenges like poverty and access to healthcare.…”

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“…Despite increasing global acceptance of abortion being a 'medical procedure,' and many reforming their laws in recent decades to allow safer access to abortions, mostly due to a recognition of the consequences of legal denial (Cornwall et al, 2008), plenty of countries, 8 including Aotearoa, still have restrictive abortion access (Center for Reproductive Rights, n.d.). However, abortion occurrence is largely unaffected by legal restrictions (GI & WHO, 2012;Cornwall et al, 2008;Erdman, 2012) therefore such restrictions leave people vulnerable to unsafe abortion (Cornwall et al, 2008;Amnesty International, n.d.).…”

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“…Regardless of legality or safety, women, girls and gender minorities have undergone risky abortions for thousands of years (Orr, 2017) and will continue to in the future. As Cornwall et al (2008) write:…”

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“…A central pillar of both the Cairo and Beijing proceedings was the right of women to determine the number and spacing of children. Cornwall et al (2008) argue that a denial of this right is a breach of women's human rights. Both proceedings speak of abortion often, however mostly in terms of protection from unsafe abortion and forced abortion, or condemnation of abortion as a method of family planning.…”

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“…Returning to Cornwall et al (2008), they assert, "access to safe abortion is a matter of human rights, democracy and public health, and the denial of such access is a major cause of death and impairment, with significant costs to development" (p. 1). Their quote highlights the intersections of abortion, RJ, access and development.…”

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Reproductive justice: Improving access to abortion services in Aotearoa New Zealand

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<p>With the recently introduced Abortion Legislation Bill 2019, 2020 could be the year that Aotearoa decriminalises abortion. The Bill, if passed, would remove abortion from the Crimes Act 1961 and treat it, instead, as a health issue. Current legislation has been heavily critiqued for undermining patients’ human rights to healthcare and bodily autonomy, causing lengthy delays in treatment, and contributing to stress. Access to abortion is unequal for different members of society, particularly for those who face socioeconomic disadvantages, are marginalised, rural, Māori, religious, migrant, or a combination thereof. Factors that obstruct access may be legal, geographical, socioeconomic, cultural and societal. Additionally, stigma, the lack of availability of willing abortion practitioners, and conscientious objection represent significant barriers. Improving access to abortion would assist in the achievement of reproductive justice and Aotearoa’s national and international agreements, such as Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. This study explores how access to abortion can be improved, particularly for the most disadvantaged, whether or not the law changes. It aims to contribute to improved and more equitable access to abortion services. Undertaken from a social constructivist and transformative epistemology, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 abortion providers, academics and advocates, as they are the knowledge-holders of abortion access. The research is guided by the framework of reproductive justice, which recognises every aspect which may hinder or empower a person’s right to control their fertility. The study found that decriminalisation and telemedicine have the greatest potential to improve access to abortion in Aotearoa, particularly for the most disadvantaged. Other ways to improve access, regardless of law change, include improved cultural competency, efforts to reduce stigma, changes to conscientious objection, and integrated services. Decriminalisation would assist in improving access to abortion and making advancements towards reproductive justice and human rights. However, questions remain over the future of funding, training and access.</p>

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Resistance and backlash to gender equality

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Dragiewicz

Pease

2020

Aust J Social Issues

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Resistance to efforts to advance gender equality is a common feature of social life, whether in workplaces and other organisations or elsewhere. In this article, we review the typical character, dynamics of and contexts for resistance to gender equality measures. Resistance is an inevitable, although undesirable, response to efforts at progressive social change. Backlash and resistance to gender equality take common forms including: denial of the problem, disavowal of responsibility, inaction, appeasement, co-option and repression. Resistance may be individual or collective, formal or informal. Pushback against gender equality measures comes more often from members of the privileged group (men) than the disadvantaged group (women). Resistance is a predictable expression of the defence of institutionalised privilege, but it is also shaped by widespread discourses on "sex roles" and "post-feminism," the methods adopted to advance gender equality and the contexts in which they take place. Understanding the character and dynamics of resistance and backlash is vital for preventing and reducing them.backlash, feminism, gender, masculinity, privilege | INTRODUCTIONEfforts to make progress toward gender inequality and end men's violence against women typically meet resistance, both individual and collective, formal and informal. Backlashresistance against progressive social changeis a common feature of the social world. When patterns of inequality and injustice shift, individuals and groups, particularly those advantaged by the status quo, resist. In this article, we explore the character and origins of resistance and backlash to

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Mainstreaming Gender or Reconstituting the Mainstream? Gender Knowledge in Development

Mukhopadhyay

2013

J of Intl Development

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Critical reviewers of gender mainstreaming as a practice agree that its transformatory potential has remained unfulfilled. This paper, based on radical readings of three conferences organised to review gender mainstreaming argues that gender has been institutionalised in development organisations although not as gender and development theorists and practitioners would have liked. This paper uses the critical readings to excavate the technologies of power of development governmentalities that structure the institutionalisation process and frame feminist practice. It shows how radical feminist projects of transformation become complicit with the imperatives of development categories and projects. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Introduction: Putting Unsafe Abortion on the Development Agenda

Cited by 29 publications

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Reproductive justice: Improving access to abortion services in Aotearoa New Zealand

Reproductive justice: Improving access to abortion services in Aotearoa New Zealand

Resistance and backlash to gender equality

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