Reglerad reproduktion - En studie över abortdiskursen i Kina och abortmotståndet i USA

Abstract

This thesis is on the subject of different views on abortion. With a qualitative analysis of the family planning policy in China and interviews with four persons living in China I try to answer what abortion can mean in this context. I use the results from an earlier study of the antiabortion lobby pro-life and the last republican candidate Mitt Romney to compare how abortion is being constructed in different ways. Reproduction is in both USA and China, among other countries, a subject for regulation. Following thesis wish to explore how that is done and what consequences it brings. I found that pro-life have centered the discussion on abortion round the fetus and the signification of life which three out of my interviewees share. Lastly I found the family planning policy being a part of how gender, sexuality and age is constructed in a heteronormative way in China.