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3 - The Politics of Religion and Reproductive Health: The Cases of Chile and Bahrain

from Part I - Civil Society Sphere

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2019

Udi Sommer
Affiliation:
Tel-Aviv University
Aliza Forman-Rabinovici
Affiliation:
Tel-Aviv University
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Summary

This chapter looks at Chile and Bahrain as two countries that demonstrate the surprising effects, interactions, and dependencies of our religious variables. With no official state religion and a fairly secular population, until August 2017 Chile had a total ban on abortion. The ban was so extreme that, in 2015, a pregnant, 11-year-old rape survivor was denied the procedure. Only as recently as August 2017 was legislation passed that permitted women’s access to abortion in the case of risk of death, rape, or fetal non-viability. With an 85% Muslim population and Islam as the official state religion, Bahrain on the other hand allows abortion on request. While suffrage was extended to Bahraini women only in 2002, they have had access to legal abortion on request since 1976. The analyses in this chapter use case study methodology to delve into those cases in an attempt to deepen our understanding of the effects of faith in the civil society sphere on the production of reproductive rights.

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Producing Reproductive Rights
Determining Abortion Policy Worldwide
, pp. 56 - 78
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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