Social Structural Model of Women's Reproductive Rights: A Cross-National Study of Developing Countries

Pillai, Vijayan K.; Wang, Guang Zhen

doi:10.2307/3341731

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“…Specifically, in many countries, the legal right to abortion is still severely restricted or outright outlawed, while in others, it has been legalized and expanded (Asal, Brown, and Figueroa 2008;Hunt and Gruszczynski 2019). Despite considerable cross-national heterogeneity, there is a general academic consensus that the worldwide trend is characterized by liberalization (Asal, Brown, and Figueroa 2008;Pillai and Wang 1999;Ramirez and McEneany 1997). Many more countries have expanded access in the past few decades, despite the small subset of countries, like Poland and the United States, where recent movement has been in the opposite direction (CRR 2022).…”

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A Ticking Time Bomb: Restrictions on Abortion Rights and Physical Integrity Rights

Avdan,

Murdie,

Asal

2024

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Do abortion restrictions augur broader crackdowns on human rights? We examine the relationship between restrictions on abortion and future Physical Integrity Rights (PIR) abuses. We argue that abortion restrictions both directly and indirectly influence PIR. Directly, abortion restrictions serve as a testing ground for repressive policies and behaviors. Indirectly, restrictions worsen inequality across segments of society and winnow support for social and religious diversity. When abortion restrictions are enacted, regimes are better equipped to shift society and consolidate power, as a subdued public is discouraged from voicing collective grievances. Using a variety of time-series cross-sectional approaches, we show that significant retractions in abortion access foretell erosion of PIR. - Paper is Forthcoming at the American Political Science Review

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Section: Global Abortion Rightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Ticking Time Bomb: Restrictions on Abortion Rights and Physical Integrity Rights

Avdan,

Murdie,

Asal

2024

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“…Modernization theory suggests that reproductive health among women is likely to improve with socio economic development ( Pillai & Wang, 1999a ; 1999b ). Fertility rates decline due to increases in opportunity cost of women's time and decreasing dependence on children as a source of old age security ( Caldwell, 1982 ) improves women's control over her well-being including reproductive health.…”

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The Effects of Disaster on Women’s Reproductive Health in Developing Countries

Swatzyna¹,

Pillai²

2013

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The objective of this study is to empirically test the effects of disasters which include natural as well as human made disasters such as armed conflict on women's reproductive health in developing countries. Data from 128 developing countries are used. It was found that average number of deaths from natural disasters and armed conflict in the East Asia and Pacific region was not significantly different from the rest of the developing world. The data are examined using structural equation analysis. This study finds that ‘armed conflict’ in developing countries presents significant reproductive health risks. The implications are discussed.

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“…Abortion law has attracted attention among scholars, focusing on comparative case studies (Blofield, ; Blofield, ; Yishai, ) and comparative analyses of western industrialized countries (Minkenberg, ; Gindulis, ). During the past 40 years, regular overviews of the development of abortion laws have determined a trend towards liberalization, albeit with some notable exceptions (Cook and Dickens, , ; Rahman et al., ; Cook et al., ; Boland and Katzive, ); in the last two decades, four large‐N quantitative studies analyzed the correlates of this liberalization or of the factors standing in its way (Asal et al., ; Pillai and Wang, , ; Ramirez and McEneaney, ). While Pillai and Wang analyze 101 developing nations, Asal et al.…”

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“…The effect of modernity remains controversial: while Asal et al. identify a liberalizing effect, Pillai and Wang (, ) and Ramirez and McEneaney do not…”

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What Shapes Abortion Law? – A Global Perspective

Hildebrandt

2015

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This article analyses a correlate of abortion law that has not been addressed in previous research: the effects of past or present communist rule. As communists reject any moral standards that were based on religious beliefs, they liberalized abortion law after they gained power. A quantitative analysis of 170 nations shows that countries with a communist past or present have more liberal abortion laws. Moreover, abortion law tends to be more liberal, the more modern and globalized a country is and the more women are represented in the workforce and in parliament. A larger percentage of Catholics in the population, in contrast, correlates with more restrictive legislation. Some countries do not fit this general pattern and the article discusses the reasons. Based on the empirical results it goes on to present the implications of the findings for public policy: in many countries strong and persistent socioeconomic and cultural forces stand in the way of further abortion law liberalization. Under these conditions, proponents of liberalization have greater chances of success if they take a moderate stance and focus on women's health instead of women's rights.

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Social Structural Model of Women's Reproductive Rights: A Cross-National Study of Developing Countries

Cited by 9 publications

References 27 publications

A Ticking Time Bomb: Restrictions on Abortion Rights and Physical Integrity Rights

A Ticking Time Bomb: Restrictions on Abortion Rights and Physical Integrity Rights

The Effects of Disaster on Women’s Reproductive Health in Developing Countries

What Shapes Abortion Law? – A Global Perspective

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