Woman vs. Fetus: Frame Transformation and Intramovement Dynamics in the Pro-Life Movement

Trumpy, Alexa J.

doi:10.1080/02732173.2014.878624

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“…The wider social processes behind the development and dissemination of this characterization of abortion as emotionally damaging for women have been explored by those interested in the sociology of social movement organization (Rohlinger, ; Rose, ; Trumpy, ); contemporary legal decision‐making (Leinwand, ; Ziegler, ); and political science (Saurette & Gordon, ; Zhang & Counts, ). They have also received attention from scholars engaged in feminist politics and strategy (Cannold, ).…”

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Framing a ‘social problem': Emotion in anti‐abortion activists' depiction of the abortion debate

Ntontis

Hopkins

2018

British J Social Psychol

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Social psychological research on activism typically focuses on individuals' social identifications. We complement such research through exploring how activists frame an issue as a social problem. Specifically, we explore anti-abortion activists' representation of abortion and the abortion debate's protagonists so as to recruit support for the anti-abortion cause. Using interview data obtained with UK-based anti-abortion activists (N = 15), we consider how activists characterized women having abortions, pro-abortion campaigners, and anti-abortion campaigners. In particular, we consider the varied ways in which emotion featured in the representation of these social actors. Emotion featured in different ways. Sometimes, it was depicted as constituting embodied testament to the nature of reality. Sometimes, it was depicted as blocking the rational appraisal of reality. Our analysis considers how such varied meanings of emotion shaped the characterization of abortion and the abortion debate's protagonists such that anti-abortion activists were construed as speaking for women and their interests. We discuss how our analysis of the framing of issues as social problems complements and extends social psychological analyses of activism.

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Framing a ‘social problem': Emotion in anti‐abortion activists' depiction of the abortion debate

Ntontis

Hopkins

2018

British J Social Psychol

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“…Unlike the mainstream American pro-life movement, which primarily employs fetal-centric framing, the pro-woman pro-life (PWPL) faction primarily frames abortion as a danger to women (Hipsher, 2007;Oaks, 2009;Rose, 2011;Trumpy, 2014). This case also documents more recent points of convergence in the American abortion debate.…”

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‘I Hate It, But It Still Sounds Good’: Collective Identity and the Evaluation of Oppositional Frame Resonance

Trumpy

2015

Social Movement Studies

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“…The concentration on the psychological consequences of abortion is associated with what Trumpy33 calls a frame extension in anti-abortion activism, whereby scientific psychological language is used to move beyond a focus on fetal rights to a pro-woman frame in which it is argued that women’s right to mental health is being undermined through abortion. While this narrative is strongly opposed by some researchers, as noted, it remains entrenched within the public imagination in many spaces.…”

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Psychological knowledge production about abortion: the politics of location and representation

Macleod

Mavuso

Chiweshe

et al. 2019

BMJ Sex Reprod Health

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BackgroundDespite considerable psychology research being conducted on abortion, there has been no study of the history of psychological knowledge production on the topic. The aim of our research was to analyse journal articles published in English language psychology journals using a politics of location and of representation analytical lens.Study designA systematic search for articles published on abortion in psychology journals from 1960 to 2015 was conducted. A mixed-method approach (content analysis and narrative review) was used to analyse the dataset. Articles were coded according to: decade of publication, region, types of research conducted, and main issues focused on. A narrative review of the dominant issue researched – psychological consequences – in two decades (the 1970s and 2000s) was conducted.ResultsKnowledge production began in the 1970s in most regions featured in the dataset and in the 1990s in South Africa. Research is dominated by quantitative studies conducted in North America and Europe concerning the demarcation of psychological consequences of abortion performed under safe conditions. In the 1970s, abortion was viewed as leading to benign psychological consequences, but by the 2000s traumatology talk was firmly entrenched. Only one article, emanating from South Africa, addressed the question of unsafe abortion.ConclusionsKnowledge production in psychology needs to move beyond a narrow focus on the psychological consequences of abortion and attitudes to abortion. Nuanced, contextualised research of the psychology of both safe and unsafe abortion is necessary.

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Woman vs. Fetus: Frame Transformation and Intramovement Dynamics in the Pro-Life Movement

Cited by 26 publications

References 50 publications

Framing a ‘social problem': Emotion in anti‐abortion activists' depiction of the abortion debate

Framing a ‘social problem': Emotion in anti‐abortion activists' depiction of the abortion debate

‘I Hate It, But It Still Sounds Good’: Collective Identity and the Evaluation of Oppositional Frame Resonance

Psychological knowledge production about abortion: the politics of location and representation

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