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The Challenges of Abortion and Assisted Reproductive Technologies Policies in Europe
Most European countries face regulatory challenges in the reproduction field that were triggered by feminist claims for reproductive rights and by the technological development of assisted reproductive technologies (ART). State responses to these reproductive challenges differ strongly in terms of regulatory scope and content. By reviewing the explanations offered in the literature, this paper concludes that if institutional arrangements at the national level do not tend to exert a clear systematic and direct impact on abortion and ART policy outputs, strong coherence within the medical community does explain a great deal of the variation among policies. However, it shows that physicians, confronted to strong public controversy, have been forced to accept compromise with their challengers by forging alliances either with women's movements or with pro-life actors.
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Party, Constituency, and Representation: Votes on Abortion in the British House of Commons
To whom do British Members of Parliament respond when voting in the House of Commons? Using a series of votes on abortion, the revealed preferences of MPs are estimated. The results indicate that constituency characteristics matter, but they also underline the central importance of party. Even when discipline is not imposed, the Members of the three largest parties are distinct from one another. Moreover, there is a noteworthy interaction between constituency and party: the more marginal the seat, the more extreme the position. Members appear to react to electoral threat by reinforcing partisan bona fides with their local party rather than conforming to the median, recognizing the importance of partisanship for electoral success and the role of local party resources.
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Attitudes toward Abortion in Poland and the United States
Objective. This paper seeks to compare the distribution and correlates of mass attitudes toward legal abortion in Poland and the United States. Methods. Multivariate models of abortion attitudes in the two countries are computed with data compiled by NORC. Results. Despite differences in history, culture, and the distribution of religious affiliation, mass attitudes toward abortion are quite similar in the two countries, although Catholicism is a significantly stronger predictor of \"prolife\" attitudes in the United States. Conclusions. In general, our findings suggest that national and cultural differences are of limited utility in accounting for variations in abortion attitudes. We suggest that the fact that the antiabortion movement in the United States must formulate arguments that appeal to an ecumenical coalition may make the Catholic Church a more effective agent of socialization in a religiously competitive environment.
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Abortion and the right to life in post-Communist Eastern Europe and Russia
Flood explores what the people of Eastern Europe and Russia have done in the post-Communist era about the law as it applies to unborn life, which groups and institutions have influenced public opinion and legislation, and why there has been substantially more activity in some states than in others. He focuses mainly on Poland, Hungary and Russia, with shorter reviews of other countries in the region.
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No Painless Death Yet for European Euthanasia Debate
Not content that both the House of Lords committee on medical ethics and the British Medical Association remain firmly opposed to the legalization of voluntary euthanasia, a pro-life member of Parliament has introduced the Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill. Elsewhere in Europe, current legislative moves all appear to be in the opposite direction.
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Choices and lives
Here are just a few: * Thirty-three states have passed laws requiring informed consent (24 include a requirement for an ultrasound). * Thirty-one states have passed abortion clinic regulations. * Thirty-eight states have passed rules on parental notification or involvement. * Thirty-eight states have wrongful-death laws that treat the unborn child as a person; 11 of these protect the fetus from fertilization onward. [...]our abortion practices remain out of step with what most Americans believe is acceptable: * Sixty-two percent believe that abortion should be legal in \"few\" or \"no\" circumstances. * Forty-two percent believe that abortion should be illegal except in cases of rape, incest, or a threat to the life of the mother; 10 percent believe that it should be illegal without exception. * Sixty-one percent believe abortion should be legal in the first trimester, 27 percent in the second trimester, 14 percent in the third trimester.
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Pro-choice? Pro-life? No choice
It compares abortion data from 2003 and 1995 assembled by the World Health Organization and the New York-based Guttmacher Institute, which studies sexual and reproductive health. \"Making abortion illegal doesn't stop it happening, and if it happens in a context that's not safe, women will die,\" says Ann Starrs of Family Care International, a charity in New York lobbying to improve women's global health and status.
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