ArticleHealth and human rights2019
From the Grassroots to the Oireachtas: Abortion Law Reform in the Republic of Ireland.
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- Civil society resistance to anti-rights mobilisation.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2026Article
- Beyond decriminalization: exploring the legalization of abortion globally.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2026Article
- From complexity to parsimony: A systems thinking validation of the multiple streams framework in abortion policy agenda setting.Health research policy and systems · 2025Article
- Multinational physician perspectives on abortion care in the context of changing legislation.Frontiers in global women's health · 2025Article
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- "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 (1982) · 2022Article
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- Mandatory Waiting Periods Before Abortion and Sterilization: Theory and Practice.International journal of women's health · 2020Review
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Abstract
In 1983, voters inserted the Eighth Amendment into Ireland's constitution, equating the right to life of a fetus with that of a pregnant person. Hundreds of thousands of women were forced overseas to access basic health care and thousands more were forced underground, importing abortion pills and risking prosecution. The realities of life under the Eighth Amendment sparked a powerful feminist grassroots struggle for abortion access. This article charts the path to abortion law reform in the Republic of Ireland from the perspective of grassroots activists in the Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC). The first half highlights the national and international policy mechanisms that activists leveraged to bring Ireland's abortion regime to the point of reform, as well as the power of challenging abortion stigma to mobilize the public and politicians, culminating in a resounding vote in May 2018 to repeal the Eighth Amendment. The second half analyzes the legislation enacted in late 2018 in order to give effect to the vote. While the new law and its commitment to free abortion is a momentous step for Ireland, it also establishes a needlessly cumbersome regime that remains grounded in a criminal law framework and incorporates barriers that have no grounding in medical evidence.
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