This paper discusses the gendered nature of reproductive citizenship in contemporary
Turkey through reading the abortion chronicles and exposes the utilization of women's
bodies and subjection of women to demographic state policies. To this end, we focus on
recent abortion debates originating from Prime Minister Erdoğan's statement on May 25,
2012 that suggested that “every abortion is a murder”. Our paper is a qualitative analysis of
the arguments of the members of the parliament following PM's statement on abortion. We …