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A 5 page analysis of the principle points from Faye D. Ginsburg's study of abortion debate, Contested Lives. Ginsburg approaches this debate from an anthropological standpoint that examines the ideologies that motivate each group of activists in one town, Fargo, North Dakota. No additional sources cited.
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origins, consequences, and meanings of the abortion debate as it pertains to the women of Fargo. The core of Ginsburgs book is what she refers to as the "procreation
stories" that she obtained through interviews with both pro-li!fe and pro-choice activists. These thirty-five interviews reveal the meaning of the abortion conflict as it is grounded in individual lives and
relationships. Due to these interviews, Ginsburg argues that the attitudes that propel this conflict are intrinsically connected to procreation events in the lives of these women. Ginsburg asserts that at
the core of the abortion debate, she has located a tension that exists between domesticity and the workplace, and the changing cultural constructions that are evolving relative to gender and
nurturance. In other words, Ginsburg examines the ideological standpoint of each group?how they each perceive the female gender role within the overall framework of society. Ginsburgs attention was first
focused on Fargo as a result of conflicts that began in 1981 over the establishment of an abortion clinic. She subsequently did a total of twelve months of fieldwork in
Fargo between 1982 and 1983, revisiti!ng the city in 1986. The main hypothesis of her study is the belief that a comprehension of the abortion conflict at the grass roots
level is enlightening towards the understanding the national debate. According to Ginsburg, pro-choice activists are critical of structures in society that serve to confine nurturance to the domestic sphere
and assign it as a female task. She presents pro-choice activists as emphasizing the widening participation of women in domains outside the home. The pro-choice narratives, as a whole, bring
up the question of the "moral authority of nurturance attributed to domesticity and its relationship to both female identity and action" (Ginsburg 147). The pro-life position emphasizes that it
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