Towards a political geography of abortion
Towards a political geography of abortion
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DOI：
10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.11.006
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发表时间：
2019-03-01
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Calkin, Sydney
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作者：
Calkin, Sydney
本文介绍了堕胎的政治地理，认为堕胎是一个重要的，但被忽视的网站，国家控制的性别机制的执行和争议。今天，堕胎服务正处于一个重大的空间转变之中：技术、医学和活动家策略的进步正在改变堕胎的地理位置，并努力削弱堕胎服务与国家法律的框架之间的联系。为了应对这些对国家控制生育的挑战，各国正在采取新的策略来重新维护对怀孕和堕胎的权威。然而，地理文献对这些变化的研究仍然不足，这些文献往往继续关注州法律和州际旅行。目前改变堕胎机会的力量超出了这些分析框架：我们需要一个多标量和规模跳跃的亲选择活动家和反选择国家之间的关系帐户。本文提出了一个堕胎的政治地理的情况下，超越了以国家为基础的框架，占不断变化的模式的阻力和限制堕胎。这些论点是通过两个案例展开的：海上移动的堕胎诊所和远程医疗堕胎技术，这两个案例都表明了在次国家和超国家层面对堕胎权利的质疑。
This article introduces a political geography of abortion, arguing that abortion access is an essential but overlooked site where gendered mechanisms of state control are enforced and contested. Today, abortion access is currently in the midst of a significant spatial transformation: advances in technology, medicine, and activist tactics are currently changing the geographies of abortion and working to weaken the link between access to abortion and national legal frameworks. In response to these challenges to state control over reproduction, states are responding with new tactics to re-assert authority over pregnancy and abortion. However, these changes remain under-researched in the geographical literature, which tends to sustain a focus on state-law and interstate travel. The forces currently transforming abortion access exceed these analytical frameworks: we require a multi-scalar and scale jumping account of the relationship between pro-choice activists and anti-choice states. This article makes the case for a political geography of abortion that moves beyond a state-based framework to account for changing patterns of resistance and restriction on abortion. The arguments are developed through two cases: mobile abortion clinics at sea and telemedicine abortion technology, both of which demonstrate the contestation over abortion rights at the sub- and supra-state levels.