A War of Words Over Abortion: The Legal-Framing Contest Over the Undue Burden Standard

IF 0.7 4区社会学 Q3 Social Sciences

Justice System Journal Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI:10.1080/0098261X.2022.2151388

Holly J. McCammon

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Abstract

Abstract Movement lawyering often results in litigation battles. Litigant lawyers in Supreme Court abortion cases, who are typically affiliated with, if not members of the reproductive-rights and antiabortion movements, for many years have engaged in a war of words as they dispute abortion laws and what constitutes an undue burden on abortion access. I use and build on social movement framing theory to examine the legal-framing contest unfolding across the undue-burden abortion cases, toward discerning the anatomy and causal sequence of this discursive legal battle. Using both qualitative and quantitative-computerized text analysis, I show that a broad discursive-opportunity structure shapes the legal-framing contest, and the contest itself is structured by framing innovations and persistence and by dialogic and monologic framing. This theoretical framework can aid our understanding of the sometimes fierce discursive battles in movement litigation, shedding light on how social movements influence legal policy development.

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关于堕胎的口水战:关于不当负担标准的法律框架之争

摘要运动律师经常导致诉讼纠纷。最高法院堕胎案件的诉讼律师，如果不是生殖权利和反堕胎运动的成员，他们通常是附属的，多年来，他们一直在争论堕胎法，以及什么构成了对堕胎的不适当负担。我运用并建立在社会运动框架理论的基础上，研究了在过度负担堕胎案件中展开的法律框架竞争，以辨别这种话语性法律斗争的解剖结构和因果顺序。通过定性和定量计算机文本分析，我展示了一个广泛的话语机会结构塑造了法律框架竞赛，而竞赛本身是由框架创新和持久性以及对话和单一框架构成的。这个理论框架可以帮助我们理解运动诉讼中有时激烈的话语斗争，揭示社会运动如何影响法律政策的发展。

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Justice System Journal LAW-

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0.90

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14.30%

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