‘Still travelling’: Access to abortion post-12 weeks gestation in Ireland

Grimes, Lorraine; Mishtal, Joanna; Reeves, Karli; Chakravarty, Dyuti; Stifani, Bianca M.; Chavkin, Wendy; Duffy, Deirdre; Horgan, Trish; Favier, Mary; Murphy, Mark; Lavelanet, Antonella

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2023.102709

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“…These regulations go beyond medical necessity, leading to clinic closures and reduced access to care and with far-reaching, dangerous consequences for patients and clinicians, as Arey et al (2022) describe for Texas. The legal regulatory mechanisms, then, are not so much about providing reproductive autonomy and justice, but more about gatekeeping and minimizing abortion access and provision, as De Londras (2020) and others (Calkin & Kaminska, 2020;Grimes et al, 2023) also conceptualized for the Irish post-Repeal legal framework.…”

Section: Control Through the Medical Regulation Of Abortion: Restrict...mentioning

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Abortion as healthcare: The adaptability of medicalization and legalization in post‐repeal anti‐abortion politics

Waltz

2023

Feminist Anthropology

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After a 35‐year‐long constitutional ban on abortion, the Eighth Amendment was repealed in May 2018 and the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 was introduced in the Republic of Ireland. Although “Repeal” and the legalization of abortion marked a significant transformation in reproductive governance, many aspects of the new abortion policy continue to complicate abortion care access and provision. In this article, I explore the mobilizations of health and rights in political discourses on abortion after legalization. In doing so, I identify how moral governance operates in post‐Repeal abortion politics. I critically consider restrictive strategies in abortion politics in Ireland and compare these to a number of recent key anti‐abortion tactics in the United States. As such, I situate post‐Repeal and post‐Roe abortion debates within parallel temporalities of abortion governance and highlight the adaptability of discourses on health and rights in shifting legal contexts.

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Section: Control Through the Medical Regulation Of Abortion: Restrict...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Abortion as healthcare: The adaptability of medicalization and legalization in post‐repeal anti‐abortion politics

Waltz

2023

Feminist Anthropology

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Fetal anomaly diagnosis and termination of pregnancy in Ireland: a service evaluation following implementation of abortion services in 2019

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American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM

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Restrictive points of entry into abortion care in Ireland: a qualitative study of expectations and experiences with the service

Chakravarty

Mishtal

Grimes

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Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

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This article focuses on access to early medical abortion care under Section 12 of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018, in Ireland and identifies existing barriers resulting from gaps in current policy design. The article draws primarily on qualitative interviews with 24 service users, 20 primary healthcare providers in the community and 27 key informants, including from grassroots groups that work with women from different migrant communities, to examine service users’ experiences accessing early medical abortions on request up to 12 weeks gestation. The interviews were part of a wider mixed-methods study from 2020-2021 examining the barriers and facilitators to the implementation of abortion policy in Ireland. Our findings highlight care seekers’ experiences with the GP-led service provision, including delays, facing non-providers, the mandatory three-day waiting period, and oversubscribed women’s health and family planning clinics. Our findings also highlight the compounding challenges for migrants and additional barriers posed by the geographical distribution of the service and the 12-week gestational limit. Finally, it focuses on the remaining challenges for racialised and other marginalised groups. In order to provide a “thick description” of women’s lives and the complexity of their experiences with abortion services in Ireland, we also present two narrative vignettes of service users, and their experiences with delays and navigating the healthcare system as migrants. To this effect, this article applies a reproductive justice framework to the results to highlight the compounding effects of these barriers on people located along multiple axes of social inequality.

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‘Still travelling’: Access to abortion post-12 weeks gestation in Ireland

Cited by 3 publications

References 18 publications

Abortion as healthcare: The adaptability of medicalization and legalization in post‐repeal anti‐abortion politics

Abortion as healthcare: The adaptability of medicalization and legalization in post‐repeal anti‐abortion politics

Fetal anomaly diagnosis and termination of pregnancy in Ireland: a service evaluation following implementation of abortion services in 2019

Restrictive points of entry into abortion care in Ireland: a qualitative study of expectations and experiences with the service

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