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Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn and the Spatial Strategy of Social Control in Texas
Tekijät: Heikkilä, Niko
Kustantaja: OpenEdition
Kustannuspaikka: LONDON
Julkaisuvuosi: 2025
Lehti: European Journal of American Studies
Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimi: European journal of American studies
Lehden akronyymi: EUR J AM STUD
Artikkelin numero: 24190
Vuosikerta: 20
Numero: 2
Sivujen määrä: 22
ISSN: 1991-9336
eISSN: 1991-9336
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/14eio
Julkaisun avoimuus kirjaamishetkellä: Avoimesti saatavilla
Julkaisukanavan avoimuus : Kokonaan avoin julkaisukanava
Verkko-osoite: https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/24190
Rinnakkaistallenteen osoite: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/499748656
In 2019, anti-abortion activists started the Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn (SCFTU) initiative, aiming to pass local ordinances outlawing abortion within city or county limits across Texas. In this article, I examine the SCFTU initiative in Texas to explain the role of social control in antiabortion strategy and the broader implications of this type of activism in relation to mainstream pro-life and the more extreme abortion abolitionist aims. To understand these mechanisms of social control, I employ a framework drawn from literature on social control and abortion mobilities. The article argues that the SCFTU initiative offers a space for anti-abortion activists to build power at a local level and to develop new ways to undermine and criminalize reproductive rights. The most serious implication of the strategy is that this type of activism clearly recognizes that abortion bans are difficult to enforce, signaling a turn toward a more authoritarian frameworks such as the model introduced by abortion abolitionists.
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