Abortion and Reproductive Rights in Slovenia: A Case of Resistance [Hardcover]

Introduction  1. The history of the struggle for the right to abortion  2. The right to access safe abortion during the transition to a multiparty system and beyond  3. Reproductive and sexual rights  an activist perspective  4. What do you think about abortion? Slovenian public opinion on abortion in longitudinal and international perspective  Conclusion

Abortion and Reproductive Rights in Slovenia: A Case of Resistance provides a detailed and in-depth analysis of the situation of sexual and reproductive rights in Slovenia.

  Opponents of womens reproductive rights have evolved numerous techniques to combat abortion over the past three decades, but never have they been more sophisticated than in recent years. Social media, fake news, and the rise of the anti-gender movement pose significant new barriers to the protection of rights that have already been established. The methods presented in this monograph to effectively defend women's rights to make decisions about their own bodies, as well as the precise and profound genealogy of reproductive rights, are of the utmost importance in a post-Trump world, for it is now more true than ever that no right won is won forever .

This new book by a team of distinguished Slovenian social scientists should be of high interest to anyone who cares about womens reproductive rights and womens equal rights in general. Taking Slovenia as their case study, setting it in a comparative context, they show how a conservative backlash, led in Slovenia by the Catholic Church, instrumentalized the term gender ideology concocted by Pope John Paul II, in order to claim, falsely, that one cannot speak of a persons gender identity separate from that persol;