You might think that the term ‘crisis pregnancy’ simply describes a pregnancy with medical complications. But no: it refers to an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy, and was coined by anti-abortion activists pushing a particular evangelical Christian narrative.
openDemocracy spoke to three US sociologists to explain this more fully: Kimberly Kelly, associate professor of sociology and director of the gender studies programme at Mississippi State University; Katrina Kimport, associate professor of medical sociology at the University of California, San Francisco; and Ziad Munson, professor of sociology at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.
Here’s what you need to know.
