Abortion in Tunisia after the revolution: Bringing a new morality into the old reproductive order.
The emergence of Islamist movements and religious symbolic repertoires in the aftermath of the Tunisian revolution has elicited the political, moral, and practical contestation of women's right to abortion. While, after several heated debates, the law was eventually not modified, several practitioners working in government family planning clinics have changed their behaviour preventing women getting abortions. Pre-existing state and medical logics, political uncertainties, and new religious and moralising discourses have determined abortion practices in the government health-care facilities generating unequal treatments according to women's marital status, class, and education. This paper will investigate the multiple logics affecting abortion practices in post-revolutionary Tunisia, focusing on the dissonant logics mobilised by health-care professionals as well as structural socioeconomic factors.
a Laboratory of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Institute of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences , University of Lausanne , Lausanne , Switzerland.
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Maffi
D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005260:Female; D054625:Healthcare Disparities; D006801:Humans; D007514:Islam; D009014:Morals; D011247:Pregnancy; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014416:Tunisia; D014933:Women's Rights
Abortion; health professionals; morality; revolution; women