%0 Journal Article
%T Failure to launch?: The women£¿s movement struggle for abortion decriminalization in the Portuguese Parliament (1982)
%A Prata
%A Ana
%J Ex aequo
%D 2012
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X in 1982, the communist party presented a proposed law on abortion decriminalization and the women¡¯s movement tactics converged at parliamentary members. despite that, we know little about this contested political process and the attempts for legal change that occurred from the interaction between activists, double-militants, and mps. findings show that women¡¯s organizations remained as ¡®outsiders¡¯ and excluded from the political process, but that most of their preferred framings were put forward by their few political allies. the £¿failure£¿ to pass abortion reform in 1982 cannot overshadow what the debate ultimately represented - a precursor of the approval of abortion decriminalization in parliament just two years later, in 1984.
%K women¡¯s movements
%K abortion rights
%K framing
%K policy-formation
%K movement outcomes.
%U http://www.scielo.gpeari.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0874-55602012000100007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en