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Abortion Talk in Germany and the United States: Why Rights Explanations are Wrong

  • Ferree M
  • Gamson W
  • Gerhards J
  • et al.
Contexts (2002) 1(2) 27-33
DOI: 10.1525/ctx.2002.1.2.27
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Abstract

The American debate over abortion is unusually volatile—but not because Americans pit the rights of women against those of fetuses. Americans actually invoke the issue of rights less often than do the far less confrontational Germans. What makes the American debate so rancorous?

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Ferree, M. M., Gamson, W. A., Gerhards, J., & Rucht, D. (2002). Abortion Talk in Germany and the United States: Why Rights Explanations are Wrong. Contexts, 1(2), 27–33. https://doi.org/10.1525/ctx.2002.1.2.27

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