Voices against the prohibition of abortion : A qualitative text analysis of four women’s rights movements in Nicaragua

Sammanfattning: This thesis examines how four different women's rights organizations in Nicaragua are arguing against the current abortion prohibition (2018). The thesis is based on a qualitative text analysis where an analytical framework has been developed to categorize the different arguments that were found. Moreover, the thesis compares how the relevant organizations are arguing compared with how they argued ten years ago (around 2008). Various ways of arguing against the law were found among the organizations. Some based their arguments on the health-related issues the prohibition leads to. Others focused on a rights-based approach and argued against the law based on feminist theory. Regarding the time comparison, some interesting differences were found. In general, the organizations analyzed in this thesis had a more positive relation to feminism than the ones that seemed to be ruling ten years ago which was a difference note-worthy. Another clear difference was that the "modern" organizations were more supportive of an unlimited access to abortion and not only access to therapeutic abortion, which was more frequent among the organizations earlier.