The Irish Abortion Journey, 1920–2018

Urquhart, Diane; Earner-Byrne, Lindsey

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-03855-7

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“…This followed a long process which was set off after the judgment of the court. Importantly, this led to the creation of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, which recommended full repeal of the Amendment and law reform to legalize abortion on a woman's request without restriction as to reason within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, and thereafter in cases where there is a risk to the health or life of the woman [53]. The argument equating the life of the woman with the life of the fetus lost the day.…”

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When accountability meets power: realizing sexual and reproductive health and rights

Sen

Iyer

Chattopadhyay³

et al. 2020

Int J Equity Health

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This paper addresses a critical concern in realizing sexual and reproductive health and rights through policies and programsthe relationship between power and accountability. We examine accountability strategies for sexual and reproductive health and rights through the lens of power so that we might better understand and assess their actual working. Power often derives from deep structural inequalities, but also seeps into norms and beliefs, into what we 'know' as truth, and what we believe about the world and about ourselves within it. Power legitimizes hierarchy and authority, and manufactures consent. Its capillary action causes it to spread into every corner and social extremity, but also sets up the possibility of challenge and contestation. Using illustrative examples, we show that in some contexts accountability strategies may confront and transform adverse power relationships. In other contexts, power relations may be more resistant to change, giving rise to contestation, accommodation, negotiation or even subversion of the goals of accountability strategies. This raises an important question about measurement. How is one to assess the achievements of accountability strategies, given the shifting sands on which they are implemented? We argue that power-focused realist evaluations are needed that address four sets of questions about: i) the dimensions and sources of power that an accountability strategy confronts; ii) how power is built into the artefacts of the strategyits objectives, rules, procedures, financing methods inter alia; iii) what incentives, disincentives and norms for behavior are set up by the interplay of the above; and iv) their consequences for the outcomes of the accountability strategy. We illustrate this approach through examples of performance, social and legal accountability strategies.

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When accountability meets power: realizing sexual and reproductive health and rights

Sen

Iyer

Chattopadhyay³

et al. 2020

Int J Equity Health

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“…Abortion access that meets Ireland’s domestic and international human rights obligations and upholds principles of gender equality, bodily integrity and human dignity for all those who live within its borders will require connected considerations that link the interpretation and application of law with medical practices, geopolitical encounters and socio-economic realities. It will require legislation that is not linguistically or interpretatively restrictive; ideas about medical practice that leave its parameters more open than closed; and spaces and circumstances that locate abortion in Ireland without maintaining its historical moral framework and ‘architecture of confinement’ (Smith, 2007; Earner-Byrne and Urquhart, 2019). It will require a vision of care that reflects on the complexities of Ireland’s complicated histories of diaspora, mobility, fixity and spatiality that are always, already, a dynamic multiplicity of possibilities.…”

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Abortion Im/mobility: Spatial Consequences in the Republic of Ireland

Side¹

2020

Feminist Review

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In the context of Ireland’s new legislation governing abortion, I outline and examine the spatial consequences of political decision-making. I argue that Ireland’s new abortion law and its clinical guidance permit travel for some pregnant people but impose fixity on others. I analyse the spatial consequences of legal limitations, including non-medically necessary delays in care and medical control of medication abortions, that necessitate travel for abortion. I demonstrate how current laws fix some pregnant people in place, including diverse migrant populations within Ireland, with no possibilities for abortion-related travel. This critique of the ‘new’ law demonstrates the Irish state’s continued political and medical control of abortion.

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“…A number of the venues that had booked the Not at home exhibition cancelled in the run up to the referendum in order to maintain a 'neutral position' (Irish Times 2018) and Pro-life campaigners launched a deliberate attack on the In her shoes Facebook page in April 2018 (The Daily Edge 2018). This silencing and the broader geopolitical issues of abortion in Ireland have attracted much academic attention (see for example De Londras and Enright;Earner-Byrne & Urquhart;2019;Quilty et al 2015). However, here we focus on silencing as immobilising, and the ways in which this is implicated in the immobilising of women's bodies.…”

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The im/mobilities of ‘sometimes-migrating’ for abortion: Ireland to Great Britain

Murray

Khan

2020

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This paper furthers the concept of im/mobilities through an investigation of the reproductive mobilities of women migrating for abortion from Ireland (north and south) to Great Britain. Where more often the focus of reproductive mobilities concerns the movement of people and matter in order to reproduce, there is less (although some) attention to movement aligned with the prevention of reproduction. We consider the variegated im/mobilities of conception not brought to birth, in the frictional movement of people, things, ideologies and imaginations in order to develop understandings of the variegated interplay of mobility and immobility. In adopting a critical mobilities perspective, we draw from the interface of scholarship in mobilities and migration studies. Hence, underlying this exploration is Hui's (2016) concept of the 'sometimes-migrant', used to challenge broader conceptualisations of 'migrants' as 'exceptional', binary oppositions between mobility and immobility, and open transdisciplinary dialogue between scholarship in migration and mobilities. We adopt Hui's call to focus on different incarnations of the 'sometimes-migrant' in the form of women travelling temporarily across national borders of varying porosity in order to seek care that is not available in their own country. Intersections of migration, mobilities and cultural history reveal the ways abortions involving women from Ireland are immobilised through geopolitical and cultural practices at local and global scales. In furthering understandings of women's reproductive im/mobilities we challenge the notion of the 'abortion tourist' and illustrate the ways in which 'sometimes-migrants' become constructed according to historical and spatial discourses.

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The Irish Abortion Journey, 1920–2018

Cited by 28 publications

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When accountability meets power: realizing sexual and reproductive health and rights

When accountability meets power: realizing sexual and reproductive health and rights

Abortion Im/mobility: Spatial Consequences in the Republic of Ireland

The im/mobilities of ‘sometimes-migrating’ for abortion: Ireland to Great Britain

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