Abortion Law Illiberalism and Feminist Politics in Comparative Perspective

March 10, 2025:

Congratulations and thanks to Professors Joanna Erdman and Paola Bergallo, whose recently published article is now freely available online. Professor Erdman is the MacBain Chair in Health Law and Policy at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Professor Bergallo is a professor at the Law School and the School of Government of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We are pleased to circulate the following abstract and a link to the Open Access text.

Joanna Erdman and Paola Bergallo, “Abortion Law Illiberalism and Feminist Politics in Comparative Perspective,” 20 (October 2024) Annual Review of Law and Social Science :273-291 Abstract and article.

Abstract: Since the 1970s, a liberal politics has dominated comparative abortion law, one almost too ubiquitous to name. This article tracks departures from liberal abortion law in Europe and the Americas that have reshaped the field of comparative abortion law. Section 1 examines the repurposing of liberal abortion law for illiberal ends in a conservative moment of authoritarian governments and their anti-gender campaigns. Drawing on larger ideas of autocratic legalism, the article analyzes how governments and courts have used the features of liberal abortion law to revoke or defeat abortion rights. Section 2 examines the counter-emergence of a feminist protest politics that has abandoned liberal abortion law in a democratic remaking of society and state. Today, in abortion lawmaking through democratized institutions and in the unmaking of abortion law through direct action, feminist movements are reclaiming comparative abortion law and its politics.

The entire article is currently Open Access: Online here.

RELATED RESOURCES:

[Comparative Abortion Law] “Abortion,” Rebecca J. Cook and Bernard M. Dickens, in Jan M. Smits, Jaakko Husa, Catherine Valcke and Madalena Narciso, eds., Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, 3rd ed., (Cheltenham, UK: Elgar Publishing, 2023), 3-11. Full text currently online here.

Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective: Cases and Controversies, by Rebecca J. Cook, Joanna N. Erdman and Bernard M. Dickens (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) – Chapters and abstracts are online here.
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