Since the 1960s there has been a rise in the United States in anti-abortion proponents, and adherence to the ‘traditional family values’ movement. Anti-abortion organisations are politically...Show moreSince the 1960s there has been a rise in the United States in anti-abortion proponents, and adherence to the ‘traditional family values’ movement. Anti-abortion organisations are politically organised on gender categories and rely on these categories in order to make their arguments. A look into how these groups present themselves as a political identity, and present women as a political identity is explored in this paper. This paper presents a discourse analysis on the construction of womanhood by three anti-abortion groups: Concerned Women for America (CWA), the Elliot Institute, and Feminists for Life (FFL). The findings of the analysis demonstrate that these groups present a biological reductionist image of women that reifies the existing social categories of women and their relationship with motherhood.Show less
