M Donnelly, C Murray - International Journal of Gynecology & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This article celebrates the remarkable changes which have occurred in the provision of abortion care in Ireland following the vote to remove the restrictive Eighth Amendment to the …
R Fletcher - Feminist Legal Studies, 2018 - Springer
Why does# RepealedThe8th matter for feminist legal studies? The answers seem obvious in one sense. Feminism has long constituted itself through the struggle for sexual and …
F De Londras - Feminist Review, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Irish legislative engagement with abortion law reform has never been framed by recognition of the rights of pregnant women, girls and other people. Rather, where it has taken place at …
Background The Republic of Ireland has one of the world's most restrictive abortion laws, allowing abortion only to preserve a pregnant woman's life. We examined the impact of the …
The referendum to overturn Ireland's near-total abortion ban in 2018 stands as one of the most remarkable political events of recent times. The campaign to repeal the 8th amendment …
S Bergen - Social Science & Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
This article examines how the physician advocacy organization Doctors for Choice articulated a collective pro-choice “medical voice” over the course of sixteen years. This …
An unprecedented, up-close look into the global self-managed abortion movement. Abortion pills have made safe medication abortion possible for millions of people around the world …
O McDonnell, P Murphy - Critical Discourse Studies, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT On 28 October 2012, Savita Halappanavar, an Indian woman living in Ireland, died in hospital while under medical care for a miscarrying pregnancy. According to her …
This chapter introduces the background to how the present study on the Repeal referendum arose. It charts some pivotal moments where the author encountered the subject of abortion …