Restricted access to abortion in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland: exploring abortion tourism and barriers to legal reform

Bloomer, Fiona; O’Dowd, Kellie

doi:10.1080/13691058.2014.886724

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“…Termination of pregnancy is legal in Ireland only when a pregnant woman’s life is at risk 11. Abortion is not legal in Ireland in cases of fatal fetal anomalies.…”

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Referrals to a perinatal specialist palliative care consult service in Ireland, 2012–2015

McMahon

Twomey

O’Reilly

et al. 2017

Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed

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“…Termination of pregnancy is legal in Ireland only when a pregnant woman’s life is at risk 11. Abortion is not legal in Ireland in cases of fatal fetal anomalies.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Referrals to a perinatal specialist palliative care consult service in Ireland, 2012–2015

McMahon

Twomey

O’Reilly

et al. 2017

Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed

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“…Not only does women's descriptive representation remain low (Galligan, 2013), but attempts to organise politically around women's substantive concerns are difficult. Domestic violence legislation remains less developed than the rest of the United Kingdom, and the 1967 Abortion Act has never been extended to the province, rendering abortion effectively illegal in the province (Bloomer and O'Dowd, 2014;Horgan and O'Connor, 2014). A Sexual Orientation Strategy, originally intended to be produced in 2012, is yet to be published or implemented.…”

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Challenging identity hierarchies: Gender and consociational power-sharing

Kennedy

Pierson

Thomson

2016

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Consociational democracy has become the most influential paradigm in the field of powersharing institutional design and post-conflict peacebuilding. Consociation institutes representation for certain formerly excluded groups. However, it simultaneously inhibits effective political representation for groups that do not align with the societal divisions that consociation seeks to accommodate, specifically the 'additional' cleavage of gender. Given the extensive use of the consociational model as a peacebuilding tool in divided states and the growing awareness of the disproportionate negative effect of conflict on women, there is a surprising lack of consideration of the effect that consociational power-sharing has on women's representation. This article considers the specific impact that the consociational model has on women's representation. We argue that because gender is an integral factor in conflict, it should therefore be integral to postconflict governance. With empirical reference to contemporary Northern Ireland, it is illustrated that consociationalism is a 'gender-blind' theory.

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“…Where abortion is illegal or not publicly funded, practical and financial barriers are considerable, and increase with gestational age (Bloomer & O’Dowd, 2014; Janiak et al., 2014; Lince-Deroche et al., 2015). In practice, gestation significantly impacts provision and, even where second trimester abortion is legally available, significant barriers may exist, such as the need to travel substantial distances for treatment (Doran & Hornibrook, 2014; Purcell, Cameron, et al., 2014; Sethna & Doull, 2013).…”

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Women’s embodied experiences of second trimester medical abortion

Purcell

Brown

Melville

et al. 2017

Feminism & Psychology

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Abortions in general, and second trimester abortions in particular, are experiences which in many contexts have limited sociocultural visibility. Research on second trimester abortion worldwide has focused on a range of associated factors including risks and acceptability of abortion methods, and characteristics and decision-making of women seeking the procedure. Scholarship to date has not adequately addressed the embodied physicality of second trimester abortion, from the perspective of women's lived experiences, nor how these experiences might inform future framings of abortion. To progress understandings of women's embodied experiences of second trimester abortion, we draw on the accounts of 18 women who had recently sought second trimester abortion in Scotland. We address four aspects of their experiences: later recognition of pregnancy; experiences of a second trimester pregnancy which ended in abortion; the ''labour'' of second trimester abortion; and the subsequent bodily transition. The paper has two key aims: Firstly, to make visible these experiences, and to consider how they relate to dominant sociocultural narratives of pregnancy; and secondly, to explore the concept

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Restricted access to abortion in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland: exploring abortion tourism and barriers to legal reform

Cited by 57 publications

References 36 publications

Referrals to a perinatal specialist palliative care consult service in Ireland, 2012–2015

Referrals to a perinatal specialist palliative care consult service in Ireland, 2012–2015

Challenging identity hierarchies: Gender and consociational power-sharing

Women’s embodied experiences of second trimester medical abortion

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