ABSTRACT
The variability of abortion laws and particularly, of the mechanisms employed to implement them attests to the socio-cultural specificity of the concrete solutions to the universal problem of reproductive control. The issue of reproductive control has been the focal point of the struggle of women to control their lives. One specific issue within the broader problem of reproductive control is that regarding a woman’s right to abortion. Since the mid-1960s women’s movements have centered around this issue, making it a major target of their struggle with political and religious establishments. Michel Foucault discourses as ways of constituting knowledge, together with the social practices, forms of subjectivity and power relations which in such knowledges and the relations between them. Discourses are more than ways of thinking and producing meaning. They constitute the “nature” of the body, unconscious and conscious mind and emotional life of the subjects which they seek to govern.
