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Halkias, whose talk was entitled "(Re)Producing Docile Subjects?: Abortion and Configurations of Gender in Athens Today," said that the condemnation of abortion by the Greek government urges women to produce docile subjects (males to serve Greece) and, in doing so, to reproduce themselves as docile subjects...
Despite their vital part in the problems of dimografiko, Greek women have hardly been involved in public discussion of the topic, Halkias said...
...There has been a pronounced absence of Greek women in the public debate over these national problems," she said...
While the Greek government leaves women out of the abortion debate and saddles them with national guilt for the abortions they have, many Greek women see abortion as a strategic advantage, however painful, in personal conflicts, Halkias said...
...Many Greek policy makers and members of the medical establishment do not believe women have anything valuable to say about the topic, Halkias said...