Pregnancy Counseling and Abortion Politics: Exploring the Effects of the Expanding Therapeutic Culture in U.S. Society

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  • February 26, 2019
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  • Huber, Katie
    • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology
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  • The existence of abortion counseling and therapeutic assistance with pregnancy decision-making is a relatively novel development, growing out of a particular cultural and political context in the United States. This thesis examines the ways that America’s “self-help therapeutic culture” is impacting the meanings of abortion in both the public and private spheres. Qualitative analysis of archival counseling resources and of semi-structured interviews with pro-life and pro-choice professionals provides insight into how therapeutic culture provides ways of undertaking support for unplanned pregnancies. These approaches are reshaping on-the-ground abortion politics by creating new grounds for claims-making. This thesis has begun to explore the kinds of political implications that therapeutic culture has as it is intertwined with pregnancy decision-making services.
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  • Rivkin-Fish, Michele
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  • Bachelor of Arts
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  • Anthropology
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  • Honors
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • 2018
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  • English

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