New article out by Jennifer Nelson and Steven Wuhs on the debate in Mexico 1990-2008 on abortion. It argues that pro-life advocates appropriated human rights arguments ('strategic secularism') to assert protections for the ‘unborn’.
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Human Rights and the Right to Life: Strategic Secularism in Mexico's Partido Acción Nacional, 1990–2008
In the 1990s, Mexican conservative politicians robustly argued against legal abortion. A feature of their strategy was the appropriation of human rights arguments to assert protections for the ‘unbor...
