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- Title
It's Not an Abortion: Examining How Individuals Who End a Wanted Pregnancy Discuss their Experiences.
- Authors
Alvarez, Cimmiaron F.
- Abstract
Various scholars have concluded that narratives of individuals who have ended wanted pregnancies restrict abortion to only acceptable cases. Through the analysis of 33 personal narratives posted on the website "Ending a Wanted Pregnancy," this article argues that these stories are polysemous, exhibiting hermeneutic depth. Women telling these stories construct reproductive justice and anti-abortion meanings simultaneously, which creates a new meaning in which their terminations are not abortions and removes them from the abortion dichotomy. These narratives achieve this distinction through the construction of a termination narrative and by distinguishing themselves from women who (do not) have abortions.
- Subjects
ABORTION; ABORTION laws; REPRODUCTIVE rights; PREGNANCY; EYEWITNESS accounts; STORYTELLING
- Publication
Western Journal of Communication, 2024, Vol 88, Issue 3, p636
- ISSN
1057-0314
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10570314.2023.2185486