Reproductive Governance in the New Europe

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ID7635993
AuthorsJoanna Mishtal (0000-0002-3292-7236, University of Central Florida, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume23
Issue1
Pages59-76
Publication date2014-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropological Journal of European Cultures (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1755-2923 • E-ISSN: 1755-2931
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/ajec.2014.230104
OpenAlexW2322334752
LanguageEN
Citations received9

While the European Union currently lacks a mandate to govern reproductive health services and policies, reproductive governance is increasingly debated both at the EU and the nation-state levels. The EU has taken formal positions to promote access to comprehensive reproductive health services. In tension with the EU's position is the Vatican, which promotes the use of conscientious objection to decline the provision of certain health services. Currently, the use of conscientious objection is mostly unregulated, prompting debates about supranational regulation at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) meeting in Paris in 2010. This article uses the lens of the PACE meeting debate to consider the cultural, historical and political specificities and agendas that give shape to competing arguments about rights, health and state sovereignty. I argue that political rationalities directed towards reproduction locally and the supranational rights debates work synergistically to paralyse European reproductive health policymaking

Corporate governance · Economics · European union · Geography · Human rights · International trade · Management · Mandate · Pace · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Reproductive health · Reproductive rights · Sociology · Sovereignty · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · International Human Rights and Reproductive Law · Law · Public Administration · Reproductive Health and Technologies

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