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...Greek women face issues different than those of American women when considering having an abortion, Alexandra Halkias said yesterday during a seminar at Harvard's Center for Literary and Cultural studies...
Translating from an interview conducted in Greek, she quoted the woman's description of her dilemma...
Halkias estimated that approximately 200,000 Greek women have abortions each year. She said this high rate is perceived as an "issue of national concern" because of dimografiko,the Greek state's self-declared demographic problems, which include the aging of the population and the shortage of males eligible to serve in the Greek army...
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...