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A reproductive justice approach to abortion access and provision in Ireland after the Eighth Amendment

Published:2022-12-06 Issue:1 Volume:VI Page:184-190
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Author:

Waltz Charlotte¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Abstract

In this paper, I draw on ongoing ethnographic research on abortion care in Ireland. My research follows a reproductive justice framework to inquire whether pregnant people have the means and the accessibility to abortion care, and whether providers have the means to provide abortion care. I argue that my approach provides an innovative way of examining reproductive justice in Ireland through a feminist and intersectional lens. Moving away from the moral framing of abortion which has dominated the public construction of the issue in Ireland to date, the reframing of abortion as a reproductive justice opens up opportunities for a more balanced consideration of abortion provision as policy, practice and lived experience for both service users and service providers.

Publisher

University College Cork

Subject

General Computer Science,Human-Computer Interaction,Philosophy,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Control and Systems Engineering,Social Psychology,Sociology and Political Science,Environmental Science (miscellaneous),Geography, Planning and Development,General Social Sciences,General Economics, Econometrics and Finance,Sociology and Political Science,Social Sciences (miscellaneous),Education,Information Systems and Management,Computer Science Applications,Software,Artificial Intelligence,Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design,Computer Networks and Communications,Software,Artificial Intelligence,Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design,Computer Networks and Communications,Computer Science Applications,Software,General Engineering

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