The question of abortion in Quebec still gives rise to discussions about its legality and women's right to choose. In this sense, this article aims to analyze the editorial of the feminist magazine La Vie en Rose, published in 1982, as a response to the anti-abortion letter written in 1981 by bishops. Based on considerations on enunciation and subjectivity by Kerbrat-Orecchioni, a discursive analyze will be made in order to explain how enunciation contributes in the formation of identities and how subjectivity generates arguments in such discourses. In addition, the notion of "identity"formulated by Stuart Hall and the notion of "power", by Michel Foucault, will be used to explain how discursive constitution of identities in language and in the socio-historical context of discursive production enables the description of relations of power between feminists, the Church, the State and doctors. This analysis will verify the production of multiple identities for women whose goal is to make resistance to the power of hegemonic institutions in Quebec.
Abortion; Enunciation; Subjectivity; Identity; Power