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IntroductionSilvia De Zordo, Joanna Mishtal, and Lorena AntonPART I: PRO-ABORTION RIGHTS ACTIVISM, MOVEMENTS, STRATEGIES, AND PROTEST LOGICSChapter 1. Legal and Political Discourses on Womens Right to AbortionChristina ZampasChapter 2. Freeing Abortion in SwedenAnnulla Linders and Danielle BessettChapter 3. Womens Liberation and the Right to choose: Struggling for Abortion in the United Kingdom and SwitzerlandKristina Schulz and Leena SchmitterPART II: ANTI-ABORTION RIGHTS ACTIVISM, MOVEMENTS, STRATEGIES, AND PROTEST LOGICSChapter 4. Contesting Abortion Rights in Contemporary Italy: Discourses and Practices of Pro-life ActivismClaudia MattalucciChapter 5. Innocence and Demographic Crisis: Transposing Post-Abortion Syndrome into a Russian Orthodox KeySonja LuehrmannChapter 6. Still a Womans Right? Feminist and Other Discourses in Belgiums Abortion StrugglesKaren Celis and Gily CoenePART III: HEALTH PROFESSIONALS'/PROVIDERS' INVOLVEMENT IN THE PRO- OR ANTI-ABORTION RIGHTS DEBATE AND ACCESS TO SERVICESChapter 7. Good doctors do not object: Obstetricians-Gynaecolosists Perspectives on Conscientious Objection to Abortion Care and their Engagement with Pro-abortion Rights Protests in ItalySilvia de ZordoChapter 8. Women Rights or Unborn Rights? Laws and Loopholes In Madrids Public Healthcare Services Abortion Provision to Migrant WomenBeatriz Martn̕ Aragn̤Chapter 9. One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: Accessing Abortion in NorwayMette Lk̜elandPART IV: PRONATALISM, NATIONALISM, AND RESISTANCE IN ABORTION POLITICS AND ACCESS TO ABORTION SERVICESChapter 10. For the Good of the Nation: Pronatalism and Abortion Ban during Ceau¿escus RomaniaLorena AntonChapter 11. Quietly Beating the System: The Logics of Protest and Resistance under the Polish Abortion BanJoanna MishtalChapter 12. Abortion Governance in the New Northern IrelandRobin Whitaker and Goretti HorganAfterword: Reproductive Governance meets European Abortion Politics: The Challenge of Getting the Gaze RightLynn M. MorganBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex

Since World War II, abortion policies have remained remarkably varied across European nations, with struggles over abortion rights at the forefront of national politics. This volume analyses European abortion governance and explores how social movements, political groups, and individuals use protests and resistance to influence abortion policy. Drawing on case studies from Italy, Spain, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the European Union, it analyses the strategies and discourses of groups seeking to liberalise or restrict reproductive rights. It also illuminates the ways that reproductive rights politics intersect with demographic anxieties, as well as the rising nationalisms and xenophobia related to austerity policies, mass migration and the recent terrorist attacks in Europe.