Drawing on social-movement and sociolegal theorizing, we investigate legal-framing innovations in the briefs of reproductive-rights cause lawyers in prominent US Supreme Court abortion cases. Our results show that pro-choice activist attorneys engage in innovative women’s-rights framing when the political-legal context is more resistant to abortion rights for women, that is, when the political-legal opportunity structure is generally closed to reproductive-rights activism. We consider reproductive-rights framing in three types of pivotal abortion cases over the last half-century: challenges to limitations on public funding of abortion, challenges to regulations that include multiple restrictions on abortion access, and challenges to bans on second-trimester abortions. Our analysis proceeds both qualitatively and quantitatively, with close reading of the briefs to distill the main women’s-rights frames, a count analysis using text mining to examine use of the frames in the briefs, and assessment of the political-judicial context to discern its influence on cause-lawyer legal framing. We conclude by theorizing the importance of the broader political-legal context in understanding cause-lawyer legal-framing innovations.

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争吵：支持选择的事业律师、法律框架创新和敌对的政治法律背景

利用社会运动和社会法律理论，我们调查了美国最高法院著名堕胎案件中的生殖权利摘要中的法律框架创新导致律师。我们的研究结果表明，当政治-法律背景对妇女的堕胎权更具抵抗力时，即当政治-法律机会结构通常对生殖权利激进主义关闭时，支持选择权的活动家律师会参与创新的妇女权利框架。我们考虑了过去半个世纪中三种关键堕胎案件中的生殖权利：对限制堕胎公共资金的挑战，对包括对堕胎的多重限制在内的法规的挑战，以及对禁止孕中期堕胎的挑战。我们的分析在定性和定量两个方面进行，仔细阅读摘要以提炼主要的妇女权利框架，使用文本挖掘进行计数分析以检查摘要中框架的使用，并评估政治司法背景以识别其对事业律师法律框架的影响。我们通过理论化更广泛的政治法律背景在理解事业律师法律框架创新方面的重要性得出结论。