Episode 49: Shifting Media Representations of Abortion (Part II)

Citations Needed

News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 12 September 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In the mid-1990s there was a rhetorical and cultural shift on the issue of abortion, namely the result of anti-abortion activists successfully introducing the term "partial birth abortion" into both the media and cultural lexicon.

Major Democrats conceded the language, along with the moral high ground, to the extremist right-wing. They hammered home the message that abortion should be "safe, legal, and rare" - signaling that abortion was something to be ashamed of, a barely tolerable abomination.

Eventually, avoiding the issue – largely seen as legally settled – became the preferred tactic of liberal Democrats. But what resulted was a long-term sacrificing of the moral framework surrounding reproductive rights and justice, leading to the place we are now: dozens of state laws effectively preventing access to abortion in large sections of the country and Roe v. Wade under real threat for the first time in 50 years.

This week, we speak with Cait Vaughan of Maine Family Planning.

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1:15.6	in which Republicans have found creative ways of reframing abortion as infanticide and as
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