Framing pro-choice movements in Irish and Argentinian news media
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2019-06-07
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From the early 2000s, men and women in all parts of the world have marched to incite their local government to remove legislative obstacles which prevent women from obtaining an abortion. In the past years, the debate around abortion has been reported by newspapers through different points of views. Narrating events from certain perspectives is a common phenomenon in discourse, which is referred to as framing. For the purpose of this study, framing of the pro-choice movement was divided into ‘support’ frame and ‘against’ frame. The cross-cultural approach of this content
analysis showed differences and similarities in the framing elements used by journalists, i.e. the use of pro-life arguments and positive framing of the pro-choice movement. On the one hand, Argentina and Ireland were found to use the support and against frame in a similar manner.
However, the themes of each frame revealed differences in the use of positive framing of the prochoice movement and the use of pro-life arguments.
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