Christabelle Sethna and Gayle Davis (eds), Abortion Across Borders: Transnational Travel and Access to Abortion Services

Stettner, Shannon

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“…Additionally, an adequate registration system would facilitate international comparison, which is currently nearly impossible, as stillbirth and/or late TOP data from countries where late TOP is permitted are currently only reliable after exclusion of late TOP data 23 and registration of these late TOPs should be performed separately. International comparisons, which are to our knowledge unavailable, can identify country‐ or region‐specific factors influencing late TOP decisions, evidence of differing medical cultures, and even abortion tourism 27 . Our monitoring technique is robust, anonymous, and internationally replicable.…”

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Pregnancy termination at a viable stage in daily clinical practice: A nationwide mortality follow‐back study in Flanders, Belgium

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Objective: Congenital malformations are frequently diagnosed prenatally even at a viable stage. No adequate registration of incidence and characteristics of late termination of pregnancy (TOP) or abortion for medical reasons exists in Flanders. Methods: Nationwide mortality follow-back survey sent to physicians signing death certificates of all stillbirths for 22 weeks gestation onward (September 2016-December 2017) in Flanders, Belgium. Questions measured whether late TOP preceded stillbirth, and which clinical and sociodemographic characteristics were indicated. Questionnaire data were linked with sociodemographic information from death certificates. Results: Response rate was 56% (203/366). 38% of stillbirths (77/203) concerned late TOP. In 88.3% of late TOPs, physicians classified congenital anomalies of the foetus as serious or very serious (incompatibility with life outside the womb or severe neurological or physical impairment). In 26% of cases, late TOP was first suggested by the physician rather than spontaneously requested by parents (73%). 88% of late TOPs were discussed in open team meetings. Conclusions: 2/5 stillbirths were preceded by late TOP, indicating severe underreportation by existing registrations and a dire need for adequate registration methods. Although late TOP was most often explicitly requested by parents, in ¼ cases termination was suggested first by physicians. Parents are sometimes hesitant to bring up late TOP themselves, indicating that TOP should always be counselled as an equivalent option. Key pointsWhat is already known about this topic? � Congenital malformations are more frequently diagnosed prenatally, possibly at a viable stage. This may lead to decisions resulting in the (late) termination of pregnancy (late TOP).� No adequate registration of incidence, indication, the decision-making process and medical acts of late TOP on the population level in Flanders exists.Ellen Roets and Kim Beernaert contributed equally to this work. Kristien Roelens and Laure Dombrecht contributed equally to this work.

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Pregnancy termination at a viable stage in daily clinical practice: A nationwide mortality follow‐back study in Flanders, Belgium

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“…Travel within and across borders to access sexual and reproductive health services has been a global trend, affecting not only abortion but also fertility treatments, contraception, surrogacy, and even gender‐affirming care (Calkin and Freeman 2019). Research has examined trends of “abortion tourism” across many contexts (Sethna and Davis 2019; Sethna and O'Doull 2012). Scholars have critiqued the use of the word “tourism” in defining this trend, arguing that tourism implies choice and even pleasure in a journey (Gilmartin and White 2011).…”

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Technologies of protest in Irish abortion activism

McCaffrey

2023

Feminist Anthropology

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In the decades before the historic legalization of abortion in the Republic of Ireland in 2018, activists used creative methods to educate, agitate, and advocate for changes in abortion law and access. In the 2000s, the availability of the “abortion pills,” mifepristone and misoprostol, began to affect patterns of illegal abortion access, as well as the methods of protest used by those advocating for legal abortion. This article examines protest actions orchestrated by Irish abortion activists from 2014 to 2018 that used abortion pills as technologies of protest. I argue that abortion pill protests introduced a new “protest logic” to abortion activism, both in Ireland and around the world (De Zordo, Mishtal, and Anton 2017). By using abortion pills as a central object in public protests, activists repackaged abortion pills from “technologies of access” to “technologies of protest.” These new tactics were not without controversy. I suggest that the conflicts that emerged from abortion pill protests helped shape new activist claims about abortion access and ultimately led to positive social and legislative change. As abortion pill use increases globally in the face of growing restrictions, the use of pills as technologies of protest will continue to affect abortion activism and other social movements.

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“…22 Many of the organisations attending the conference -from France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and West Germany -were engaged in (semi-)illegal abortion work and abortion travel around Europe. 23 Others were engaged in defending existing legal frameworks against conservative attacks and for better implementation following recent liberalisation (the British NAC and several Dutch and Nordic groups). A broad consensus existed among the European attending groups on motherhood as associated with alienation and oppression.…”

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Contesting ‘Global Sisterhood’: The Global Women's Health Movement, the United Nations and the Different Meanings of Reproductive Rights (1970s–80s)

Bracke

2023

Gender & History

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The article contributes to a genealogy of the global articulation of reproductive rights principles, as established at the 1994 United Nations (UN) Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo and the UN Women's Conference held in Beijing the following year. It highlights the key role played by an emerging global women's health movement in the 1970s–80s, in shaping UN debates on family planning, women's rights in procreative choice and women's roles in socio‐economic development. The article focuses on the International Campaign for Abortion, Sterilisation and Contraception (est. London 1978) and the Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (Amsterdam and Manila 1984; ECOSOC consultative status in 1992). Adopting an intersectional perspective, the paper highlights the local embeddedness of feminist positions, the shortcomings of Western feminism and the ways in which conflicts between women's organisations allowed for an original and evolving concept of reproductive rights to emerge. It is based on UN papers and the archives of the above organisations and family planning movements.

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Christabelle Sethna and Gayle Davis (eds), Abortion Across Borders: Transnational Travel and Access to Abortion Services

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Pregnancy termination at a viable stage in daily clinical practice: A nationwide mortality follow‐back study in Flanders, Belgium

Pregnancy termination at a viable stage in daily clinical practice: A nationwide mortality follow‐back study in Flanders, Belgium

Technologies of protest in Irish abortion activism

Contesting ‘Global Sisterhood’: The Global Women's Health Movement, the United Nations and the Different Meanings of Reproductive Rights (1970s–80s)

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