Of Rights and Power: Canada's Federal Abortion Policy 1969–1991

Haussman, Melissa

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“…Providing significant support for state feminism theories, the absence of high-level support and women's policy agency advocacy explain 94 percent (.94 raw coverage) of the cases of nonsuccess and uniquely explain 68 percent of the cases (.68 unique coverage). This solution path uniquely explains the nonsuccess of the Toronto Women's Liberation Group (Canada Abortion 1) and the Women's Liberation Group (Canada Abortion 1) in which both high-level support and women's policy agency advocacy were absent for making abortion legal and unrestricted (Haussman 2001). The absence of high-level support and women's policy agency advocacy also explains the cases of Dagmar Coester-Waltjen (Germany Hot Issue), Monica Zumstein (Germany Hot Issue), and Monica Frommel, who advocated the repeal of the 1991 Embryo Protection Act.…”

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Gender Expertise in Public Policy

Hoard

2015

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This timely new series publishes leading monographs and edited collections from scholars working in the disciplinary areas of politics, international relations, and public policy with specific reference to questions of gender. The series showcases cutting-edge research in Gender and Politics, publishing topical and innovative approaches to gender politics. It will include exciting work from new authors and well-known academics and will also publish high-impact writings by practitioners working in issues relating to gender and politics.The series covers politics, international relations, and public policy, including gendered engagement with mainstream political science issues, such as political systems and policymaking, representation and participation, citizenship and identity, equality, and women's movements; gender and international relations, including feminist approaches to international institutions, political economy, and global politics; and interdisciplinary and emergent areas of study, such as masculinities studies, gender and multiculturalism, and intersectionality.

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Gender Expertise in Public Policy

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2015

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“…The issue on which cross-party cooperation by women parliamentarians has been most visible in both Australia and other Westminster countries such as Canada has been that of reproductive rights (Haussman, 2001: 81–84). One reason is that conscience votes, also known as ‘free votes’, are traditionally granted on abortion and related issues.…”

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What makes the substantive representation of women possible in a Westminster parliament? The story of RU486 in Australia

Sawer

2012

International Political Science Review

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This article explores institutional and other factors facilitating the substantive representation of women in parliament. It engages with a range of indicators of substantive representation, including process/ responsiveness indicators, legislative/policy outcomes and attitudinal alignment of women representatives and women in the community. It presents an Australian case study of a successful initiative by a cross-party group of women parliamentarians to facilitate access to the abortion drug RU486. It finds that critical mass, critical actors and a critical juncture were important but so was institution-building, particularly the understudied role of parliamentary groups.

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Morality Issues

Mucciaroni¹,

Scala²

2019

The United States and Canada

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The substantial differences between Canada and the United States (U.S.) on LGBT rights and abortion policies arise from the two nations’ political and institutional conditions. Gays and lesbians in Canada enjoy a comprehensive set of rights while those in the U.S. do not. More recently, the gap between the countries has widened on transgender rights, where the U.S. lags behind Canada. While abortion is not a hotly contested issue in Canada as it is in the U.S., gaps in access to abortion services persist. The key political condition that accounts for these outcomes is the length of time in which liberal policymakers have been in power in Canada and conservatives in the U.S. The separation of powers, primary elections, and legislative fragmentation have also facilitated conservative influence on policy in the U.S., while Canada’s more unified institutions have made it easier for liberals to make comparatively rapid progress in these policy domains.

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Of Rights and Power: Canada's Federal Abortion Policy 1969–1991

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