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Introduction
Abstract
[First paragraph]
In early summer 2006, we had a phone conversation that generated interest in this topic. Emily was reminiscing about her experiences at the Washington, D.C. March for Women's Lives in April of 2004. The March, a demonstration for reproductive justice, brought out feminists and anti-abortion protestors alike. Emily remembered seeing African-American men holding signs that equated abortion to the airplane attacks in New York City on September 11, 2001. This sparked curiosity: how does abortion become equated with "terrorism"? [1] One answer to this question is that a woman who has an abortion is said to commit "body-terrorism" as she poses a threat to the nation by choosing not to reproduce. [2]
Repository Citation
Musial, Jennifer, and Emily van der Meulen. "Theorizing Threat: An Investigation of Contentious Embodiment." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 7, no. 1, 2007, pp. 1–3. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol7/iss1/1
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