Achieving Reproductive Justice: Some Implications of Race for Abortion Activism in Northern Ireland

Nyberg, Anja

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“…Calkin and Kaminska demonstrate how a comparative analysis of the role of religion, particularly Catholicism, in Poland and Ireland aids understanding of the value and potential of feminist protest as equally as giving insight into the limitation of gender law reforms. Anja Nyberg (2020, this issue) highlights the impact of cross-border knowledge flows for reproductive justice in Northern Ireland, arguing that Irish pro-choice politics must engage more critically with issues of race and migration. Drawing on the scholarship and activism of American women-of-colour activists, and Black feminism in particular, she shows what it might mean to centre the most oppressed in Irish debates about abortion law.…”

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Abortion in Ireland: Introduction to the Themed Issue

Calkin¹,

Londras²,

Heathcote³

2020

Feminist Review

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Trinity College Dublin to discuss spatiality and abortion law reform in Ireland. The 8 th Amendment ('the 8 th ') was still part of the Irish Constitution. Some contributors were cautious, wary of predicting success in the forthcoming referendum, nervous of the fight to come. Others were more confident; change would come, the 8 th would be removed from the Constitution, a new and better law would replace it although, of course, law alone would never be enough. Over the course of the day, scholars, activists, artists, politicians and policymakers discussed what was possible, likely, desirable. Ours was one of thousands of gatherings that had taken place over three-and-a-half decades of activism for abortion law reform in Ireland, but also one of the earliest since the government had confirmed that there would be a referendum on repeal of the 8 th Amendment. The referendum was scheduled for 25 May 2018, almost exactly three months after our workshop. By the time those of us based outside of Ireland were scheduled to fly back to our homes the next day, the snow had become so heavy that many flights had been cancelled. Our time in Dublin extended as the weather worsened. Those unexpected Dublin days contained moments of togetherness, happiness, frustration and exhaustion; on occasion our stuckness brought us together over pints and on snowy walks through almost-deserted city streets. We thought and spoke frequently of the dozens of women who must have had to abandon flights that had been booked to take them for their desired abortions over those days. Some of them probably ended up having to continue with their pregnancies, mere months too early for the referendum and almost a year too early for the new law that would finally make abortion lawful for many women in many circumstances in the Republic of Ireland. Much has, of course, changed since our gathering in Dublin. The 8 th Amendment has been repealed. The new law, the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 (2018), has been introduced. As of 22 October 2019, abortion has been decriminalised for our siblings in Northern Ireland and legislation is expected there in the spring of 2020. However, as we predicted on that snowy day in Dublin, reproductive life under the new constitutional and legislative regime remains difficult, uneven and sometimes cruel. In the articles, Open Space pieces and creative 897684F ER0010.

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Abortion in Ireland: Introduction to the Themed Issue

Calkin¹,

Londras²,

Heathcote³

2020

Feminist Review

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“…Situating abortion at the intersections of governance, healthcare, and social justice is a relatively new and unexplored way of studying abortion in Ireland and it is essential to place lived experiences at the centre of research to understand the effects of the recent legalisation of abortion. 6,16 In this paper, I draw on ongoing ethnographic research on abortion care in Ireland. My research follows a reproductive justice framework to inquire whether pregnant people have the means and the accessibility to abortion care, and whether providers have the means to provide abortion care.…”

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A reproductive justice approach to abortion access and provision in Ireland after the Eighth Amendment

Waltz

2022

The Boolean

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In this paper, I draw on ongoing ethnographic research on abortion care in Ireland. My research follows a reproductive justice framework to inquire whether pregnant people have the means and the accessibility to abortion care, and whether providers have the means to provide abortion care. I argue that my approach provides an innovative way of examining reproductive justice in Ireland through a feminist and intersectional lens. Moving away from the moral framing of abortion which has dominated the public construction of the issue in Ireland to date, the reframing of abortion as a reproductive justice opens up opportunities for a more balanced consideration of abortion provision as policy, practice and lived experience for both service users and service providers.

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Reproducing Timely Subjects With Abortion Law: Calendaring, Punctuating, Anticipating

Fletcher

2023

SSRN Journal

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Achieving Reproductive Justice: Some Implications of Race for Abortion Activism in Northern Ireland

Cited by 4 publications

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Abortion in Ireland: Introduction to the Themed Issue

Abortion in Ireland: Introduction to the Themed Issue

A reproductive justice approach to abortion access and provision in Ireland after the Eighth Amendment

Reproducing Timely Subjects With Abortion Law: Calendaring, Punctuating, Anticipating

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