Anti-Abortion Activism In The U.S. And France

Comparing Opportunity Environments Of Rescue Tactics

Bibliographic Data

ID8243172
AuthorsLeslie King (0000-0002-2940-6077, Smith College, Northampton, MA), Ginna Husting (Boise State University, Boise, ID)
Year2003
Volume8
Issue3
Pages297-312
Publication date2003-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMobilization An International Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1086-671X • E-ISSN: 1938-1514
PublisherMobilization Journal (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.17813/maiq.8.3.h735767404671g50
OpenAlexW1956518603
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited22

We explore how opportunity environments, conceptualized to include political-legal and cultural components, help explain the trajectories of movement tactics and frames employed in differing contexts. Using data from interviews, newspaper accounts, and web sites, we document how opportunity environments affected the trajectory of "rescue" tactics and frames. When abortion opponents in France attempted to block access to abortion providers in order to "rescue unborn children, " the tactic and associated frames met with a different fate than in the U.S. The legal context under which abortion was available in each nation affected the use of specific direct action tactics. Also, how abortion was culturally constructed and embedded—its "cultural opportunity structure"—affected responses to rescue by pro-life activists, the media, and the countermovement

Abortion · Context (archaeology · Countermovement · Geography · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Religion and Society Interactions · Reproductive Health and Contraception

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