Irish legislative engagement with abortion law reform has never been framed by recognition
of the rights of pregnant women, girls and other people. Rather, where it has taken place at …

This short reflection presents a personal account of the process and outcome, the
achievements and disappointments of legislative reform following the Irish referendum to …

Abstract In May 2018, the Irish electorate voted to remove from the Constitution one of the
most restrictive abortion bans in the world. This referendum followed 35 years of legal cases …

Anyone with even a passing interest in the politics of reproductive rights will know that
abortion is a serious flashpoint in Irish politics. For decades, the questions of whether, how …

The provision of the Irish Constitution that guarantees “the unborn” a right to life equal to that
of a pregnant woman has consequences for access to abortion and the care of women in …

The lack of a clear and accessible law specifically outlining when abortion is legal in
Northern Ireland has led to confusion and misinformation among the public, health …

This article explores the context within which abortion law and discourse in Northern Ireland
must be situated and understood, relying in part on post-modern insights into the wider and …

Ireland has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world. Abortion has been
criminalised since 1861, and the passage of the 8th Amendment in 1983 introduced 'the …

Bringing these articles together in a single publication was always part of our plan when we
(de Londras and Calkin) first proposed the workshop to the Institute of Advanced Studies at …

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 …