The "Word-Made" flesh: The disembodiment of gender in the abortion debate

Faye Ginsburg

doi:10.4324/9780203949061-15

The "Word-Made" flesh: The disembodiment of gender in the abortion debate

Faye Ginsburg

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These words were the thoughts of a right-to-life activist as she prayed in front of the first and only abortion clinic in the state of North Dakota, the Fargo Women’s Health Organization.1 Through such rhetoric, she and others like her have been attempting to resignify not only the physical site of abortion-the clinic-but also the pregnant bodies that enter its doors. For many other women in the region, the clinic’s opening in 1981 signalled a long-awaited blessing: it greatly increased their access to safe, sympathetic, and reasonably priced abortions.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Situated Lives
Subtitle of host publication	Gender and Culture in Everyday Life
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	142-156
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9781135250447
ISBN (Print)	9780415918060
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203949061-15
State	Published - Jan 1 2014

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