(Re)imagining the ‘Backstreet’: Anti-abortion Campaigning against Decriminalisation in the UK

Lowe, Pam

doi:10.1177/1360780418811973

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“…It can here be useful to open a brief parenthesis on how the concept of ‘risk’ is constructed and manifested, as we as we cannot ignore the different moral basis used to identify what a risk is in public health interventions and their supporters (i.e., through the identification of identifiable harms and victims) and by the users behind the tweets analyzed (for which, the real risk is the alleged thread to their individual freedoms) (in line with Hunt 1999 ; Lowe 2019 ). For these latter, by reconceptualizing risk as danger rather than a balance of possibilities (see Fox 1999 ; Lee 2014 ), the COVID-19-related health risk would be nothing else than a way to justify surveillance and restrictions toward the population.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For these latter, by reconceptualizing risk as danger rather than a balance of possibilities (see Fox 1999 ; Lee 2014 ), the COVID-19-related health risk would be nothing else than a way to justify surveillance and restrictions toward the population. As such, while the concept of risk has been utilized in this study as prevalent in the relevant literature, we should recognize that—as observed in Lowe ( 2019 )—the adoption of risk-based narratives can contain unresolved contradictions (shifting also the implicit burden of the related responsibility to manage that risk, e.g., from the uncompliant individual to the dystopic State) and consequently can be problematic in the context of public communication.…”

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To wear or not to wear? Unpacking the #NoMask discourses and conversations on Twitter

2022

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In the context of the COVID-19 health crisis, the use of face masks has been a topic broadly debated. In many Western countries, especially at the heights of the pandemic, discussions on the use of protective facemasks were often linked to what were mainly political considerations, often fueled by health-related misinformation. Our study brings together social sciences and computer science expertise to retrospectively unpack the #NoMask discourses and conversations using both network analysis approaches on big data retrieved from Twitter and qualitative analyses on sub-sets of relevant social media data. By looking comparatively at two dataset gathered at different stages of the health crisis (2020 and 2022), we aim to better understand the role of Twitter in that interesting area where the dissemination of health misinformation became capitalized by the political narrative linking the social discontent caused by the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic to specific political ideologies. Our analyses show that there has never been a unique ‘NoMask movement,’ nor a defined online community. Rather, we can identify a range of relatively niche, loosely connected, and heterogeneous actors that, in the course of the pandemic, independently pushed diverse (but converging and compatible) discourses. Conversations directly linked to the #NoMask relevant hashtags are overall limited, as twitters using them are not talking to each other; nonetheless, they successfully engaged a larger audience.

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To wear or not to wear? Unpacking the #NoMask discourses and conversations on Twitter

2022

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“…The supporters of abortion are looking for arguments for its legalization, also for cross-border purposes, e.g. indicating the risk of death or serious injury of illegal abortions, but without discussing the long-term and wide-ranging consequences for the quality of mental life or relations with the spouses of women who perform abortions (Lowe, 2018). In these two trends, there is talk of pro-life attitudes that indicates that human life should be protected from conception to natural death, and pro-choice attitudes, recognizing the right of women to choose abortion, due to the belief that it is her business.…”

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Attitudes of spouses towards abortion and the quality of their mutual relations

Rawicka¹

2022

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In recent years there have been a lot of social and political discussions concerning legal aspects of abortion in Poland and lessening restrictions in this area. Nevertheless there are few debates on social, psychological and medical effects for women and men who take the decision of abortion both on individual basis and in their mutual relationship. In the article the research has been conducted concerning relation between women’s and men’s attitudes towards abortion and the quality of their marital relationship. It cannot be explicitly stated what results abortion can bring in their common relationship. However, it can be estimated to what extend the cognitive, emotional and motivational aspect of their attitude towards abortion is connected with the quality of their marital bonding, love, communication and the feeling of being well-matched. In the research the method of diagnostic survey was used. To collect data estimating the quality of marriage the following four standardized exploratory tools were applied: Marital Bonding Scale of Józef Szopiński, Love Measure Questionnaire according to Robert Sternberg, adopted by Bogdana Wojciszke, Marital Communication Questionnaire by Maria Kaźmierczak and Mieczysław Plopa, and Marital Match Questionnaire by Jan Rostowski and Mieczysław Plopa. In order to estimate the respondents’ attitude towards abortion the researchers used one of the statements from the scale of attitude towards parenthood by Marta Komorowska-Pudło. On the basis of the data collected in the research it can be diagnosed that the attitudes of a married couple towards abortion have a statistically significant association with their mutual relationship, however not a big one. The higher level of acceptance they expressed for the abortion in the situation of an unplanned pregnancy ,the lower was the level of the satisfaction in their marital bonding, love, communication and feeling of being well-matched. At the same time with the increase of their level of satisfaction in their mutual relationship, their negative attitude towards abortion as a birth control tool was also growing. On the basis of comparison of the research results with data presented in the literature regarding the quality of married couples who had abortion, one can conclude that the attitude of married couples towards abortion in reference to cognitive and emotional-motivational components are connected in a similar way with the quality of their relationship, as in case of the attitude of married couple towards abortion in behavioral component aspect. Accepting abortion (pro-choice attitude) is connected with less satisfactory relationships between men and women in marriages. On the other hand the lack of acceptance of abortion (pro-life attitude) results in the higher level of the quality of their relationship.

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“…We can point to precise acts of direct violence. For example, pro-life groups organize in front of abortion clinics to dissuade women with lies and encourage women and professionals to repent (Morgan, 2017;Lowe, 2019;Lowe and Page, 2019). The literature also shows that there is direct violence on the part of some health professionals.…”

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Design and study of psychometric properties of the Community Attitude to Abortion Scale (CAAS) with the Chilean population: Autonomy and Stigma

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IntroductionAttitudes toward abortion are related to structural, cultural, and direct gender-based violence. This violence can affect women’s mental, physical and reproductive health. Therefore, it is essential to know the nature of community attitudes toward abortion. Since we currently do not have an instrument that measures attitudes towards abortion in Chile, we set the objective of this study to design the Community Attitude to Abortion Scale (CAAS) and analyze its psychometric properties in a Chilean community population.MethodsThis work is an instrumental design study. Using a sampling of panelists by sociodemographic quotas, we obtained a sample of 1,223 participants with a mean age of 36.7 years (SD = 13.56).ResultsAs a result, we obtained a scale of 18 items and two correlated factors, Autonomy and Stigma. This structure fits better as an Exploratory Structural Equations Model (ESEM). Both factors have excellent internal consistency. In addition, we obtained evidence of concurrent and discriminant validity: The scores on the factors of the Universal Religious Involvement Scale (I-E12) correlated negatively with Autonomy and positively with Stigma; participants with low levels of identification with a right-wing political orientation, with high levels of identification with a leftwing, pro-feminist, pro-LGBTQ +, and pro-euthanasia political orientation, obtained higher mean scores on Autonomy and lower on Stigma.DiscussionThe CAAS is an adequate tool for use with the Chilean community population, with evidence of consistency and validity. La CAAS is the first tool to measure attitudes to abortion in this country.

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(Re)imagining the ‘Backstreet’: Anti-abortion Campaigning against Decriminalisation in the UK

Cited by 8 publications

References 27 publications

To wear or not to wear? Unpacking the #NoMask discourses and conversations on Twitter

To wear or not to wear? Unpacking the #NoMask discourses and conversations on Twitter

Attitudes of spouses towards abortion and the quality of their mutual relations

Design and study of psychometric properties of the Community Attitude to Abortion Scale (CAAS) with the Chilean population: Autonomy and Stigma

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