Taking on the Opposition, Male Circumcision and Other Themes

THIS journal issue has at least two themes. The originally announced theme is about strategies for taking on the opposition to sexual and reproductive health and rights. Not surprisingly abortion is the subject of several of the papers. Interestingly the issues of support and opposition in relation to abortion law and policy are analysed from the point of view of Islam in the Middle East and North Africa (Hessini) the role of the parliament in reforming the abortion law from a gender and political perspective in democratic Spain knowledge and perceptions of ordinary people vs. the churches and government in Trinidad & Tobago (Martin et al) the stories of women who had unsafe abortions in Australia prior to legal reform and the process of taking a case to liberalise the abortion law to the Constitutional Court in Colombia. But abortion is not the only subject of papers for this theme. Opposition to emergency contraception in Latin America is the focus of two papers one about the changing political stance of different governments and the influence of that and of right-wing lobbyists on a major donor in Peru and the other about the opposition of the Catholic church in Latin America to emergency contraception with examples from Peru Brazil and Chile and a scientific and conceptual analysis of the origins of that opposition. (excerpt)

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• From test-tube women to bodies without women

  Open Access•Renate Klein, Renate Duelli Klein•Women s Studies International Forum•2008

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• Promoting equity to achieve maternal and child health

  Sarah Thomsen, Dinh Thi Phuong Hoa et al.•Reproductive Health Matters•2011

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