In this paper, I highlight key differences between a discourse analytic approach to women’s accounts of abortion and that taken by the growing body of research that seeks to explore and measure women’s experiences of abortion stigma. Drawing on critical analyses of the conceptualisation of stigma in other fields of healthcare, I suggest that research on abortion stigma often risks reifying it by failing to consider how identities are continually re-negotiated through language-use. In contrast, by attending to language as a form of social action, discursive psychology makes it possible to emphasise speakers’ capacity to construct “untroubled” (i.e. non-stigmatised) identities, while acknowledging that this process is constrained by the contexts in which talk takes place. My analysis applies these insights to interviews with women concerning their experiences of having an abortion in England. I highlight three forms of discursive work through which women navigate “trouble” in their accounts of abortion, and critically consider the resources available for meaning-making within this particular context of talk. In doing so, I aim to provoke reflection about the discursive frameworks through which women’s accounts of abortion are solicited and explored.

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令人不安的堕胎：对女性账户的话语分析

在这篇论文中，我强调了对女性堕胎叙述的话语分析方法与越来越多的旨在探索和衡量女性堕胎耻辱经历的研究之间的主要区别。借鉴对医疗保健其他领域污名概念化的批判性分析，我建议对堕胎污名的研究往往冒着将其具体化的风险，因为未能考虑如何通过语言使用不断重新协商身份。相比之下，通过将语言作为一种社会行为的形式，话语心理学可以强调说话者构建“无忧无虑”（即非污名化）身份的能力，同时承认这一过程受到谈话的语境的限制。发生。我的分析将这些见解应用于对女性的访谈，了解她们在英国堕胎的经历。我强调了三种形式的话语工作，女性通过这些工作来解决他们对堕胎的描述中的“麻烦”，并批判性地考虑了在这种特定的谈话背景下可用于意义创造的资源。在这样做的过程中，我的目的是引发人们对征集和探索女性堕胎叙述的话语框架的反思。