The article presents selected problems relevant for the contentious issue of abortion and
related discourses indicating that one of the characteristic features of abortion discourse is its
mediatization.
The author aims to characterize the constraints on abortion discourses and the varied environments
in which different types of such discourses emerge.
Abortion discourses are sociolinguistically differentiated and may exhibit different styles
and modes of expression. Although they share the scope of the subject matter involved as in
all cases they are centered on abortion-related problems, the field of discourse in each case is
defined by the nature of the communicative situation in which a particular discourse is embedded.
All abortion discourses are underlined with particular assumptions concerning the nature of
human life and its beginning, as well as the issues of the dignity and liberty of the human person.
The author suggests that what really hampers abortion discourses and prevents their
participants from reaching a consensus is the fact that people who engage in such disputes are
faced with the incommensurability of the values which translate into decisive factors and the
final arguments used by interacting discussants. Another problem is posed by the fact that the
two extreme positions in the debate are formulated with the use of different styles and registers, which results in the clash of asymmetric discourses. Finally, it is not insignificant that subjectively
important values are much varied and that they must coexist with two main sets or “families”
of abortion-oriented fundamental values present in the polarised camps.
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