Current Abortion Access and Provision (Rep of Ireland & NI)

Grimes L, O'Shaughnessy A, Roth R, Carnegie A, Duffy DN. ‘Analysing MyOptions: Experiences of Ireland’s Abortion Information and Support Service’  BMJ Sex Reprod Health. 2022 Jul;48(3):222-226. doi: 10.1136/bmjsrh-2021-201424. Epub 2022 Mar 14. PMID: 35288458.

Chakravarty D, Mishtal J, Grimes L, Reeves K, Stifani B, Duffy D, Murphy M, Favier M, Horgan P, Chavkin W, Lavelanet A. Restrictive points of entry into abortion care in Ireland: a qualitative study of expectations and experiences with the service Sex Reprod Health Matters. 2023 Dec;31(1):2215567. doi: 10.1080/26410397.2023.2215567. PMID: 37326515; PMCID: PMC10281397.

Duffy, D., Mishtal, J., Grimes, L., Murphy, M. Reeves, K., Chakravarty, D. 2022 'Information flow as reproductive governance. Patient journey analysis of information barriers and facilitators to abortion care in the republic of Ireland'. SSM Popul Health. 2022. May 19; 19:101132. 

Mishtal, J., Reeves, K., Chakravarty, D., Grimes, L., Stifani, B., Chavkin, W., Duffy, D., Favier, M., Horgan, P., Murphy, M., Lavelanet, A.F. 2022. ‘Abortion policy implementation in Ireland: Lessons from the community model of care’. PLoS ONE 17(5). E0264494. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264494

Dempsey, B., Favier, M., Mullaly, A., Higgins, M. 2021. ‘Exploring Provider’s Experience of Stigma Following the Introduction of More Liberal Abortion Care in the Republic of Ireland’. Contraception 104 (4): 414-419

Aiken AR, Bloomer F. Abortion decriminalised in Northern Ireland. BMJ. 2019 Nov 4;367:l6330. doi: 10.1136/bmj.l6330. PMID: 31685538. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31685538/

Bloomer, Fiona, Jayne Kavanagh, Leanne Morgan, Laura McLaughlin, Ralph Roberts, Wendy Savage, and Colin Francome. ‘Abortion Provision in Northern Ireland: The Views of Health Professionals Working in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Units’. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health 48, no. 1 (January 2022): 35–40. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsrh-2020-200959.

Maxwell, Karen J, Lesley Hoggart, Fiona Bloomer, Sam Rowlands, and Carrie Purcell. ‘Normalising Abortion: What Role Can Health Professionals Play?’ BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health 47, no. 1 (January 2021): 32–36. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsrh-2019-200480.

Broussard, Kathleen. ‘The Changing Landscape of Abortion Care: Embodied Experiences of Structural Stigma in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland’. Social Science & Medicine 245 (1 January 2020): 112686. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112686.

O’Shaughnessy, Eimear, Keelin O’Donoghue, and Sara Leitao. ‘Termination of Pregnancy: Staff Knowledge and Training’. Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare 28 (June 2021): 100613. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srhc.2021.100613.

Donnelly, Mary, and Claire Murray. ‘Abortion Care in Ireland: Developing Legal and Ethical Frameworks for Conscientious Provision’. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 148, no. 1 (January 2020): 127–32. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijgo.13025.

Grimes, Lorraine, Joanna Mishtal, Karli Reeves, Dyuti Chakravarty, Bianca Stifani, Wendy Chavkin, Deirdre Duffy, et al. ‘“Still Travelling”: Access to Abortion Post-12 Weeks Gestation in Ireland’. Women’s Studies International Forum 98 (1 May 2023): 102709. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2023.102709.

Bras S, Gomperts R, Kelly M, et alAccessing abortion outside jurisdiction following legalisation of abortion in the Republic of IrelandBMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health 2021;47:200-204.

Mullally, A., T. Horgan, M. Thompson, C. Conlon, B. Dempsey, and M.F. Higgins. ‘Working in the Shadows, under the Spotlight – Reflections on Lessons Learnt in the Republic of Ireland after the First 18 Months of More Liberal Abortion Care’. Contraception 102, no. 5 (November 2020): 305–7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2020.07.003.

Spillane, Alison, Maeve Taylor, Caitriona Henchion, Róisín Venables, and Catherine Conlon. ‘Early Abortion Care during the COVID‐19 Public Health Emergency in Ireland: Implications for Law, Policy, and Service Delivery’. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 154, no. 2 (August 2021): 379–84. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijgo.13720.

Aideen O’Shaughnessy, Rachel Roth, Anna Carnegie, Lorraine Grimes, Unruly bodies (of knowledge): influencing Irish abortion policy through evidence-based abortion activism, Community Development Journal, 2023;, bsad032, https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsad032

 

Historical Perspectives on Reproductive Oppression

Owen Cullens, Rosemary. A Social History of Women in Ireland 1870-1970. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2005.

McCafferty, Nell. A Woman to Blame: The Kerry Babies Case. 2019th ed. Cork: Attic Press, 1985.

Hogan, Caelainn. Republic of Shame: How Ireland Punished ‘Fallen Women’ and Their Children. Dublin: Penguin Books, 2019.

Farrell, Elaine. She Said She Was in the Family Way: Pregnancy and Infancy in Modern Ireland. London: University of London Press, 2012.

Grimes, Lorraine. ‘They Go to England to Preserve Their Secret: The Emigration and Assistance of the Irish Unmarried Mother in Britain 1926-1952’. Restrospectives 5, no. 1 (2016): 51–65.

Daly, Ann. ‘Veiled Obscenity: Contraception and the Dublin Medical Press 1950-1900’. In She Said She Was in the Family Way. London: University of London Press, 2012.

Ryan, Louise. ‘The Press, Police and Prosecution: Perspectives on Infanticide in the 1920’s’. In Irish Women’s History. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2004.

Luddy, Maria. ‘Sex and the Single Girl in 1920s and 1930s  Ireland’. The Irish Review 35 (2007): 79–91.

Delay, Cara. ‘Pills, Potions, and Purgatives: Women and Abortion Methods in Ireland, 1900–1950’. Women’s History Review 28, no. 3 (16 April 2019): 479–99. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2018.1493138.

Barry, Ursula. ‘Abortion in the Republic of Ireland’. Feminist Review, no. 29 (1988): 8.

Delay, Cara, and Annika Liger. ‘Bad Mothers and Dirty Lousers: Representing Abortionists in Postindependence Ireland’. Journal of Social History 54, no. 1 (1 September 2020): 286–305. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shz065.

Rose, R. S. ‘Induced Abortion in the Republic of Ireland’. The British Journal of Criminology 18, no. 3 (1978): 245–54.

 McCormick, Leanne. ‘“No Sense of Wrongdoing”: Abortion in Belfast 1917-1967’. Journal of Social History 49, no. 1 (2015): 125–48.

Delay, Cara. ‘Kitchens and Kettles: Domestic Spaces, Ordinary Things, and Female Networks in Irish Abortion History, 1922–1949’. Journal of Women’s History 30, no. 4 (2018): 11–34. https://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2018.0040.

 

Racism And Abortion Politics

Lentin, Ronit. ‘A Woman Died: Abortion and the Politics of Birth in Ireland’. Feminist Review 105, no. 1 (November 2013): 130–36. https://doi.org/10.1057/fr.2013.21.

Lyons, Suzi, Frances O’Keefe, Anna Clarke, and Anthony Staines. ‘Cultural Diversity in the Dublin Maternity Services: The Experience of Maternity Service Providers When Caring for Ethnic Minority Women’. Ethnicity and Health 13, no. 3 (2008).

Lentin, Ronit. ‘Ireland: Racial State and Crisis Racism’. Ethnic and Racial Studies 30, no. 4 (2007): 610–27. DOI:10.1080/01419870701356023

Lentin, Ronit. ‘Pregnant Silence: (En)Gendering Ireland’s Asylum Space’. Patterns of Prejudice 37, no. 3 (2003): 301–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00313220307592

Rivetti, Paola. ‘Race, Identity and the State After the Irish Abortion Referendum’. Feminist Review 122, no. 1 (July 2019): 181–88. https://doi.org/10.1177/0141778919845881.

O’Carroll, Aileen, David Landy, and Maire Ni Mhordha. ‘Repeal the Eighth and Reproductive Rights Interview with Emily Waszak’, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7486/DRI.R2087B539.

Lentin, Ronit. ‘Strangers and Strollers: Feminist Notes on Researching Migrant m/Others’. Women’s Studies International Forum 27, no. 4 (2004): 301–14. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240397260_Strangers_and_strollers_Feminist_notes_on_researching_migrant_mothers#:~:text=10.1016/j.wsif.2004.10.002

Weerawardhana, Chamindra. ‘White Women’s Mascot: Dr Savita Halappanavar and the Racial Politics of Abortion Rights’. Dr Chamindra Weerawardhana (blog), 30 October 2018. https://fremancourt.medium.com/white-womens-mascot-savita-halappanavar-and-the-racial-politics-of-abortion-rights-c33daf65d544.

Lentin, Ronit. ‘After Savita: Migrant m/Others and the Politics of Birth in Ireland’. In The Abortion Papers Ireland: Volume 2, by Aideen Quilty, Sinead Kennedy, and Catherine Conlon, 179–88. Cork: Cork University Press, 2015.

Fletcher, Ruth. ‘Reproducing Irishness: Race, Gender, and Abortion Law’. Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 17 (2005): 365–404. https://ssrn.com/abstract=2485527

Ní Fhloinn, Eileen. ‘The Case of Travellers and Traveller Voices’. In We’ve Come A Long Way. Reproductive Rights of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Ireland., edited by Cristina Florescu, Elena Balboa, Juliana Sassi, and Paola Rivetti. Sao Paolo: editora Urutau, 2018.



Abortion, Medicine, and Maternity Care

Burrell, Celia, and Malcolm Griffiths. ‘Changes in the Abortion Legislation in Ireland: The Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013’. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 124, no. 8 (2017): 1217–1217. https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.14459.

Taylor, Maeve, Alison Spillane, and Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran. ‘The Irish Journey: Removing the Shackles of Abortion Restrictions in Ireland’. Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology 62 (January 2020): 36–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2019.05.011.

Bergen, Sadie. ‘“The Kind of Doctor Who Doesn’t Believe Doctor Knows Best”: Doctors for Choice and the Medical Voice in Irish Abortion Politics, 2002–2018’. Social Science & Medicine 297 (1 March 2022): 114817. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114817.

Murphy-Lawless, Jo. ‘Embodied Truths: Women’s Struggle for Voice and Wellbeing in Irish Maternity Services’. In The Abortion Papers Ireland: Volume 2. Cork: Attic Press, 2015.

Murphy-Lawless. Reading Birth and Death: A History of Obstetric Thinking. Cork: Cork University Press, 1998.

Kelly, Jene, and Anne Matthews. ‘Maternity Services in Ireland’. AIMS Journal 20, no. 2 (2008).

Sheldon, Sally. ‘How Can a State Control Swallowing? The Home Use of Abortion Pills in Ireland’. Reproductive Health Matters 24, no. 48 (1 November 2016): 90–101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rhm.2016.10.002.

Aitken K, Patek P, Murphy ME The opinions and experiences of Irish obstetric and gynaecology trainee doctors in relation to abortion services in Ireland Journal of Medical Ethics 2017;43:778-783.

 

Abortion and Migration

Gilmartin, Mary, and Allen White. ‘Interrogating Medical Tourism: Ireland, Abortion, and Mobility Rights’. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 36, no. 2 (January 2011): 275–80. https://doi.org/10.1086/655907.

Bloomer, Fiona, and Kellie O’Dowd. ‘Restricted Access to Abortion in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland: Exploring Abortion Tourism and Barriers to Legal Reform’. Culture, Health & Sexuality 16, no. 4 (21 April 2014): 366–80. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2014.886724.

Luibhéid, Eithne. ‘Sexual Regimes and Migration Controls: Reproducing the Irish Nation-State in Transnational Contexts’. Feminist Review 83, no. 1 (August 2006): 60–78. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400281.

Sethna, Christabelle, and Gayle Davis. Abortion Across Borders: Transnational Travel and Access to Abortion Services. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.

Rossiter, Ann. Ireland’s Hidden Diaspora: The Abortion Trail and the Making of the London-Irish Underground 1980-2000. London: IASC Publishing, 2009.

Martin, Angela. ‘Death of a Nation: Transnationalism, Bodies and Abortion in Late Twentieth-Century Ireland’. In Gender Ironies of Nationalism, 65–88. London: Routledge, 2002.

Luibhéid, Eithne. ‘Childbearing against the State? Asylum Seeker Women in the Irish Republic’. Women’s Studies International Forum 27, no. 4 (October 2004): 335–49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2004.10.004.

Du Barry, Shivonne. ‘Immigration in Ireland and the Precarious Situation of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities’. In We’ve Come A Long Way. Reproductive Rights of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Ireland., edited by Cristina Florescu, Elena Balboa, Juliana Sassi, and Paola Rivetti. Sao Paolo: editora Urutau, 2018.

Side, Katherine. ‘A Geopolitics of Migrant Women, Mobility and Abortion Access in the Republic of Ireland’. Gender, Place & Culture 23, no. 12 (December 2016): 1788–99. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2016.1262831.

Activist and Social Movement Perspectives

Connolly, Linda. The Irish Women’s Movement: From Revolution to Devolution. 2003rd ed. Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 2002.

Carnegie, Anna, and Rachel Roth. ‘From the Grassroots to the Oireachtas’. Health and Human Rights 21, no. 2 (December 2019): 109–20.

Connolly, Linda. ‘Chapter 2. Explaining Repeal: A Long-Term View’. In After Repeal Rethinking Abortion Politics, edited by Kath Browne and Sydney Calkin, 36–52. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Taylor, Judith. 1998. ‘Feminist Tactics and Friendly Fire in the Irish Women’s Movement’. Gender and Society 12, no. 6 

Quesney, Anne. ‘Speaking Up! Speaking Out! Abortion in Ireland, Exploring Women’s Voices and Contemporary Abortion Rights Activism’. In The Abortion Papers Ireland: Volume 2, by Aideen Quilty, Catherine Conlon, and Sinead Kennedy, 150–63. Cork: Cork University Press, 2015.

O’Shaughnessy, Aideen Catherine. ‘Triumph and Concession? The Moral and Emotional Construction of Ireland’s Campaign for Abortion Rights’. European Journal of Women’s Studies, 2021, 17. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068211040999.

McCaffrey, Brenna. ‘Technologies of Protest in Irish Abortion Activism’. Feminist Anthropology, 4 January 2023, fea2.12116. https://doi.org/10.1002/fea2.12116.

Kennedy, Sinéad. ‘A Tale of Two Referendums: A Comparative Study of the Anti-Amendment Campaign and Together for Yes’. Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics 6, no. 1 (1 March 2022): 04. https://doi.org/10.20897/femenc/11748.

 

Art and Abortion in Ireland

Calkin, Sydney. ‘Healthcare Not Airfare! Art, Abortion and Political Agency in Ireland’. Gender, Place & Culture, a, 26, no. 3 (4 March 2019): 338–61. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1552928.

Chan, Suzanna. ‘Speaking of Silence, Speaking of Art, Abortion and Ireland’. Irish Studies Review 27, no. 1 (2 January 2019): 73–93. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2018.1560892.

NicGhabhann, Niamh. ‘City Walls, Bathroom Stalls and Tweeting the Taoiseach: The Aesthetics of Protest and the Campaign for Abortion Rights in the Republic of Ireland’. Continuum 32, no. 5 (3 September 2018): 553–68. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2018.1468413.

Repeal the 8th

Fletcher, Ruth. ‘#RepealedThe8th: Translating Travesty, Global Conversation, and the Irish Abortion Referendum’. Feminist Legal Studies 26, no. 3 (November 2018): 233–59. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-018-9396-x.

McKimmons, Elaine, and Louise Caffrey. ‘Discourse and Power in Ireland’s Repeal the 8th Movement’. Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements 13, no. 1 (2021): 193–224.

Calkin, Sydney. ‘Abortion Pills in Ireland and beyond: What Can the 8th Amendment Referendum Tell Us about the Future of Self-Managed Abortion?’ In After Repeal: Rethinking Abortion Politics, by Kath Browne and Sydney Calkin, 73–89. B. London: Zed Books, 2019.

Ní Mhórdha, Máire, and Elżbieta Drążkiewicz-Grodzicka. ‘Chapter 5. Of Trust and Mistrust: The Politics of Repeal’. In After Repeal: Rethinking Abortion Politics, edited by Kath Browne and Sydney Calkin. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

McGill, Mary. ‘“Enough Judgement”: Reflections on Campaigning for Repeal in Rural Ireland’. In After Repeal Rethinking Abortion Politics, edited by Kath Browne and Sydney Calkin, 109–23. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Griffin, Grainne, Orla O’Connor, Ailbhe Smyth, and Alison O’Connor. It’s a Yes: How Together for Yes Repealed the Eighth and Transformed Irish Society. Dublin: Orpen Press, 2019.

Reidy, Theresa. ‘The 2018 Abortion Referendum: Over before It Began!’ In After Repeal: Rethinking Abortion Politics, by Kath Browne and Sydney Calkin. London: Zed Books, 2019.

Field, Luke. ‘The Abortion Referendum of 2018 and a Timeline of Abortion Politics in Ireland to Date’. Irish Political Studies 33, no. 4 (2 October 2018): 608–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2018.1500461.

Campbell, Emma. ‘My Experience of the Together for Yes (TFY) Campaign’. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (blog), 10 October 2018. http://www.srhm.org/news/my-experience-of-the-together-for-yes-tfy-campaign/.

Carroll, Michaela, Cara Delay, Beth Sundstrom, and Annie Gjelsvik. ‘“Our Darkest Hour”: Women and Structural Violence under Ireland’s 8th Amendment’. Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics 6, no. 1 (1 March 2022): 12. https://doi.org/10.20897/femenc/11756.

Enright, Mairead. ‘“The Enemy of the Good”: Reflections on Ireland’s New Abortion Legislation’. Feminists@law 8, no. 2 (2018). https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.658

McAvoy, Sandra. ‘Vindicating Women’s Rights in a Fetocentric State: The Longest Irish Journey’. In Theory on the Edge: Irish Studies and the Politics of Sexual Difference. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 10.1057/9781137315472_5

AIMS Ireland. ‘How Does the 8th Amendment Affect Continuing Pregnancy in Ireland?’, 23 November 2017. http://aimsireland.ie/how-does-the-8th-amendment-affect-continuing-pregnancy-in-ireland-aims-ireland/.

Decriminalisation: Abortion Reform in NI

O’Rourke, Catherine. ‘Advocating Abortion Rights in Northern Ireland: Local and Global Tensions’. Social & Legal Studies 25, no. 6 (December 2016): 716–40. https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663916668249.

Fegan, Eileen V., and Rachel Rebouche. ‘Northern Ireland’s Abortion Law: The Morality of Silence and the Censure of Agency’. Feminist Legal Studies 11, no. 3 (2003): 221–54. https://doi.org/10.1023/B:FEST.0000004587.37503.5d.

Armitage, Richard. ‘Abortion in Northern Ireland: Decriminalisation, COVID-19 and Recent Data’. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe 15 (April 2022): 100349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2022.100349.

Boyle, Mary, and Jane McEvoy. ‘Putting Abortion in Its Social Context: Northern Irish Women’s Experiences of Abortion in England’. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 2, no. 3 (July 1998): 283–304. https://doi.org/10.1177/136345939800200302.

Francome, Colin. ‘Gynaecologists and Abortion in Northern Ireland’. Journal of Biosocial Science 26, no. 3 (July 1994): 389–94. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932000021465.

Sheldon, Sally, Jane O’Neill, Clare Parker, and Gayle Davis. ‘“Too Much, Too Indigestible, Too Fast”? The Decades of Struggle for Abortion Law Reform in Northern Ireland’. The Modern Law Review 83, no. 4 (July 2020): 761–96. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12521.

Bloomer, Fiona, and Emma Campbell, eds. Decriminalizing Abortion in Northern Ireland. London ; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

 

Cultural Critiques

Haughton, Miriam, Sarah Hoover, and Ciara L. Murphy. ‘Think Outside My Box: Staging Respectability and Responsibility in Ireland’s Repeal the 8th Referendum’. Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics 6, no. 1 (1 March 2022): 11. https://doi.org/10.20897/femenc/11755.

Mistry, Zubin. ‘The Sexual Shame of the Chaste: “Abortion Miracles” in Early Medieval Saints’ Lives’. Gender & History 25, no. 3 (November 2013): 607–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12040.

Porter, Elisabeth. ‘Culture, Community and Responsibilities: Abortion in Ireland’. Sociology 30, no. 2 (May 1996): 279–98. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038596030002005.

McDonnell, Orla, and Padraig Murphy. ‘Mediating Abortion Politics in Ireland: Media Framing of the Death of Savita Halappanavar’. Critical Discourse Studies 16, no. 1 (January 2019): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2018.1521858.

Chakravarty, Dyuti, Alice Feldman, and Anna Penney. ‘Analysing Contemporary Women’s Movements for Bodily Autonomy, Pluriversalizing the Feminist Scholarship on the Politics of Respectability’. Journal of International Women’s Studies 21, no. 7 (2020).

Transnational/Comparative Perspectives

​​Cullen, Pauline, and Elżbieta Korolczuk. ‘Challenging Abortion Stigma: Framing Abortion in Ireland and Poland’. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters 27, no. 3 (29 November 2019): 6–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2019.1686197.

Clifford, Allison M. ‘Abortion in International Waters Off the Coast of Ireland: Avoiding a Collision between Irish Moral Sovereignty and the European Community’. Pace International Law Review 14, no. 2 (2002): 385–433.

Rosen, Carly. ‘Women on Waves, Ireland, and the Abortion Ship Pilot Mission’. Women Leading Change 1, no. 2 (2016): 28–37.

Randall, Vicky. ‘The Politics of Abortion: Ireland in Comparative Perspective’. The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 18, no. 1 (1992): 121. https://doi.org/10.2307/25512902.

Dillon, Michele. ‘Cultural Differences in the Abortion Discourse of the Catholic Church: Evidence from Four Countries’. Sociology of Religion 57, no. 1 (1996): 25. https://doi.org/10.2307/3712002.

Hoff, Joan. ‘Comparative Analysis of Abortion in Ireland, Poland, and the United States’. Women’s Studies International Forum 17, no. 6 (November 1994): 621–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-5395(94)00052-2.

Andrea F. Noguera, Argentina's Path to Legalizing Abortion: A Comparative Analysis of Ireland, the United States, and Argentina, 25 Sw. J. INT'l L. 356 (2019).

Legal Scholarship

De Londras, Fiona. ‘Constitutionalizing Fetal Rights: A Salutary Tale from Ireland’. SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2600907.

Bloomer, Fiona, and Eileen Fegan. ‘Critiquing Recent Abortion Law and Policy in Northern Ireland’. Critical Social Policy 34, no. 1 (1 February 2014): 109–20. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018313496190.

Erdman, Joanna N. ‘Procedural Abortion Rights: Ireland and the European Court of Human Rights’. Reproductive Health Matters 22, no. 44 (January 2014): 22–30. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0968-8080(14)44798-0.

De Londras, Fiona, and Mima Markicevic. ‘Reforming Abortion Law in Ireland: Reflections on the Public Submissions to the Citizens’ Assembly’. Women’s Studies International Forum 70 (September 2018): 89–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2018.08.005.

De Londras, Fiona, and Mairead Enright. ‘The Case for Repealing the 8th’. In Repealing the 8th, 1st ed., 1–14. Reforming Irish Abortion Law. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2018. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv47w44r.5.

Murray, Claire. ‘The Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013: Suicide, Dignity and the Irish Discourse on Abortion’. Social & Legal Studies 25, no. 6 (December 2016): 667–98. https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663916668246.

Pierson, Claire, and Fiona Bloomer. ‘Macro- and Micro-Political Vernaculizations of Rights’. Health and Human Rights 19, no. 1 (June 2017): 173–86.

De Londras, Fiona. ‘“A Hope Raised and Then Defeated”? The Continuing Harms of Irish Abortion Law’. Feminist Review 124, no. 1 (March 2020): 33–50. https://doi.org/10.1177/0141778919897582.

Enright, Mairead and Conway, Vicky and de Londras, Fiona and Donnelly, Mary and Fletcher, Ruth and McDonnell, Natalie and McGuinness, Sheelagh and Murray, Claire and Ring, Sinead and Ui Chonnachtaigh, Sorcha, Abortion Law Reform in Ireland: A Model for Change (June 29, 2015). 2015 Feminists@Law 5(1) , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2631293

Abortion and LGBTQIA Studies

Keown, Bridget E. ‘“There Is No Limit to What Could Be Done”: Considering the Past and Potential of Irish Queer Health Activism’. Éire-Ireland 56, no. 3–4 (2021): 206–31. https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.2021.0021.

Browne, Kath, and Catherine Jean Nash. ‘In Ireland We “Love Both”? Heteroactivism in Ireland’s Anti-Repeal Ephemera’. Feminist Review 124, no. 1 (March 2020): 51–67. https://doi.org/10.1177/0141778919895262.

Walsh, Fintan. ‘Pride, Politics, and the Right to Perform’. In Theory on the Edge: Irish Studies and the Politics of Sexual Difference, edited by Noreen Giffney and Shildrick, 105–22. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Affect, Emotion, and Abortion in Ireland

Fischer, Clara. ‘Abortion and Reproduction in Ireland: Shame, Nation-Building and the Affective Politics of Place’. Feminist Review 122, no. 1 (2019): 32–48. https://doi.org/10.1177/0141778919850003

Fischer, Clara. ‘Feminists Redraw Public and Private Spheres: Abortion, Vulnerability, and the Affective Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment’. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society 45, no. 4 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1086/707999

Fischer, Clara. ‘Gender and the Politics of Shame: A Twenty-First-Century Feminist Shame Theory’. Hypatia 33, no. 3 (2018).  https://doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12431

Fischer, Clara. ‘Revealing Ireland’s “Proper” Heart: Apology, Shame, Nation’. Hypatia 32, no. 4 (2017): 751–67. https://doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12358

O’Shaughnessy, A. (2022). Bodies of Change: Analysing the Embodied and Affective Movement for Abortion Rights in Ireland. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.87018

Abortion and Reproductive Justice

Bodelsson, Sarah. ‘An Ignition of Hope for Reproductive Justice in Contentious Times’. In We’ve Come A Long Way. Reproductive Rights of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Ireland., edited by Cristina Florescu, Elena Balboa, Juliana Sassi, and Paola Rivetti. Sao Paolo: editora Urutau, 2018.

Fitzsimons, Camilla. REPEALED Ireland’s Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Justice. London: PLUTO PRESS, 2021.

McCarthy, Joan. ‘Reproductive Justice in Ireland: A Feminist Analysis of the Neary and Halappanavar Cases’. In Ethical and Legal Debates in Irish Healthcare: Confronting Complexities, 9–23. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt18pkdtd

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