Reproductive Governance and the (Re)definition of Human Rights in Poland |
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Authors: | Joanna Mishtal |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Anthropology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USAjmishtal@ucf.edu |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACTReproductive rights struggles have continued to dominate public debates in Poland since the political resurgence of the Catholic church in 1989. In 2015, the state passed a landmark “In Vitro Policy” to regulate assisted reproductive technologies. Its religiously based compromises may jeopardize other reproductive rights. I argue that the new policy negotiations demonstrate how versions of competing human rights claims are central to reproductive governance and struggles in the new Polish “ethical order.” These negotiations reveal a reciprocal and temporal effect between infertility and abortion laws, in which previously enacted abortion restrictions are used to limit and define “In Vitro” rights. |
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Keywords: | Poland abortion assisted reproductive technologies human rights reproductive governance reproductive rights and policies |
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