Abortion, emotions, and health provision: Explaining health care professionals' willingness to provide abortion care using affect theory

Normalising abortion: what role can health professionals play?

“…This paper focuses on ways in which abortion providers can contribute to normalisation. Providers have a heightened awareness of prevailing negative sociocultural attitudes to abortion, often resulting in limited disclosure around their role [12][13][14][15]. But providers also resist stigmatisation by reframing their work in ways which emphasise its 'greater good' and focusing on their facilitation of women's choices and rights [13].…”

Cheeky Witnessing

“…As a feminist collective, they drew on cross-generational experience of feminist, lesbian, queer, anti-racist, anti-colonial, housing and migrant organising to witness the abortion trail and call for repeal and legal respect for reproductive choice. They observed the trail between abortion restriction and provision as a half-hidden pathway in the diaspora space (Brah, 1996; Walter, 2001; Patchett and Keenan, 2017) 4 of Britain and Ireland, which has enabled women, girls and non-binary people to work around legalities and become unpregnant, but often at a significant material and symbolic cost (Quilty, Kennedy and Conlon, 2015; Duffy et al ., 2018; Kennedy, 2018; MERJ, 2018). Their witnessing of the injustice of the abortion trail as they called for Repeal presents an opportunity to identify different techniques and tools of observation as they illustrate feminist understanding of knowledge production—knowledge that also reproduces as it mixes new modes of knowing legal worlds out of existing ones.…”

“…Feminist activists Speaking of I.M.E.L.D.A. embodied those commitments in interesting ways during the call for repeal of the 8 th Amendment 1 as they witnessed the world of the abortion trail (Reagan, 2000;Rossiter, 2009;Fletcher, 2017;Duffy et al, 2018;McQuarrie et al, 2018;Calkin and Freeman, 2019;Earner-Byrne and Urquhart, 2019;Sethna and Davis, 2019) where people and things move across borders and legalities to change life's reproduction. In thinking with this direct action performance group about their attachment to cheekiness, and their use of different sources, subject-figures and objects in improvising with legal consciousness of reproductive choice, this paper contributes to feminist understanding of witnessing as a practice of knowledge generation (Haraway, 1988(Haraway, , 2018Murphy, 2004Murphy, , 2012, which cuts across legal boundaries on the abortion trail.…”

From Feminist Anarchy to Decolonisation: Understanding Abortion Health Activism Before and After the Repeal of the 8thAmendment

“…According to this narrative, hosting, financing and providing transport and information about accessing abortion services appear less significant than distributing illegal pills. However, it was through the expansion of these steady, quotidian forms of caregiving to and from those on the peripheries of legality that the informal 'abortion trails' (Rossiter, 2009) became more formal abortion corridors (Duffy et al, 2018) and, eventually, disrupted the legal borders of abortion in Ireland.…”

“…According to this narrative, hosting, financing and providing transport and information about accessing abortion services appear less significant than distributing illegal pills. However, it was through the expansion of these steady, quotidian forms of caregiving to and from those on the peripheries of legality that the informal ‘abortion trails’ (Rossiter, 2009) became more formal abortion corridors (Duffy et al , 2018) and, eventually, disrupted the legal borders of abortion in Ireland. The work of AHAs in destigmatising abortion for individual abortion seekers through ‘de-strangering’ the abortion trail (Fletcher, 2016) is similarly invisibilised, despite the significance of this work in terms of combatting the feelings of banishment (Erdman, 2006, 2016; Kelly and Tuszynski, 2016) and outsideness that characterise the experience of abortion travel for many.…”