Reproductive decision-making has been highly contested in Western countries and can thus serve as an illustration through which to trace changing norms, values, family concepts and gender roles. This special issue investigates public debates regarding legal abortion and women’s changing options for decision-making in the US, Germany, Sweden and Ireland as well as transnational abortion travels since the 1960s. After gaining the right to abortion, women have had to contend with a political and legislative backlash that has threatened to undermine access to abortion care. While women have not been perceived as responsible decision-makers, they have vigorously claimed the right to make their own reproductive decisions. The introduction to this special issue proposes a comparative approach to analyse the impact that political shifts since the 1960s have had on reproductive policies and women’s access to abortion. We follow the similarities and differences in national policies, legal frameworks, moral codes, and individual agency in different Western countries.

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比较视角下的生殖决策

生殖决策在西方国家一直备受争议，因此可以作为一个例证，通过它追踪不断变化的规范、价值观、家庭观念和性别角色。本期特刊调查了关于合法堕胎和妇女在美国、德国、瑞典和爱尔兰的决策选择的变化以及自 1960 年代以来跨国堕胎旅行的公开辩论。在获得堕胎权后，妇女不得不应对政治和立法的强烈反对，这种反对有可能破坏获得堕胎护理的机会。虽然女性并未被视为负责任的决策者，但她们强烈要求自己做出生育决定的权利。本期特刊的引言提出了一种比较方法来分析 1960 年代以来的政治变化对生育政策和妇女获得堕胎机会的影响。我们遵循不同西方国家在国家政策、法律框架、道德规范和个人代理方面的异同。