Chapter 11 Quietly ‘Beating the System’ The Logics of Protest and Resistance under the Polish Abortion Ban

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I Pro-abortion Rights Activism, Movements, Strategies, and Protest Logics
5. Chapter 1 Legal and Political Discourses on Women’s Right to Abortion 23
6. Chapter 2 Freeing Abortion in Sweden 46
7. Chapter 3 Women’s Liberation and the ‘Right to Choose’ Struggling for Abortion in the United Kingdom and Switzerland 66
8. Part II Anti-abortion Rights Activism, Movements, Strategies, and Protest Logics
9. Chapter 4 Contesting Abortion Rights in Contemporary Italy: Discourses and Practices of Pro-life Activism 85
10. Chapter 5 Innocence and Demographic Crisis: Transposing Post-abortion Syndrome into a Russian Orthodox Key 103
11. Chapter 6 Still a Woman’s Right? Feminist and Other Discourses in Belgium’s Abortion Struggles 123
12. Part III Health Professionals’/Providers’ Involvement in the Pro- or Anti-abortion Rights Debate and Access to Services
13. Chapter 7 ‘Good Doctors Do Not Object’ Obstetricians-Gynaecologists’ Perspectives on Conscientious Objection to Abortion Care and their Engagement with Pro-abortion Rights Protests in Italy 147
14. Chapter 8 Women Rights or ‘Unborn’ Rights? Laws and Loopholes in Madrid’s Public Healthcare Services’ Abortion Provision to Migrant Women 169
15. Chapter 9 One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: Accessing Abortion in Norway 187
16. Part IV Pronatalism, Nationalism, and Resistance in Abortion Politics and Access to Abortion Services
17. Chapter 10 For the Good of the Nation: Pronatalism and Abortion Ban during Ceauşescu’s Romania 209
18. Chapter 11 Quietly ‘Beating the System’ The Logics of Protest and Resistance under the Polish Abortion Ban 226
19. Chapter 12 Abortion Governance in the New Northern Ireland 245
20. Afterword. Reproductive Governance meets European Abortion Politics: The Challenge of Getting the Gaze Right 266
21. Acknowledgements 283
22. Index 285