OUT NOW The Abortion Papers Ireland: Volume 2

The Abortion Papers Ireland: Volume 2 (2015) edited by Aideen Quilty, Sinéad Kennedy and Catherine Conlon provides key reflections and scholarship on the Irish abortion regime generated in the period between the 1992 X case, the death of Savita Halappanavar in 2012 and the subsequent introduction in 2013 of limited abortion legislation.

The ideas generated in the volume come from the different but complementary perspectives of activism and scholarship. The collection includes the voices of Irish women who have had abortions, something largely absent within Ireland’s abortion debate. Taken as a whole the volume offers new conceptual and theoretical insights into the abortion debate by providing an original perspective on the Ireland’s abortion regime.

The collection is intended to offer a valuable resource for those currently advancing legal and social change in order to offer women living in Ireland, North and South access to abortion on the island of Ireland. For those interested in the abortion debate more broadly, it will offer a unique overview of the debate in both a national and international context.

Available from Cork University Press

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Foreword by AILBHE SMYTH

Introduction by AIDEEN QUILTY, SINÉAD KENNEDY & CATHERINE CONLON

1 My Story
JANET Ní SHUILLEABHÁIN

2 Dúirt bean liom … A woman told me …
Punishing the productive and the reproductive
PAULINE CONROY

3 The Catholic Church and Fertility Control in
Ireland: the making of a dystopian regime
SANDRA McAVOY

4 Speech for Abortion Papers Symposium, June 2013
ANTHEA McTEIRNAN

5 Reproductive Justice and the Irish Context:
towards an egalitarian framing of abortion
LEAH CULHANE

6 Towards a Reproductive Justice Model in Ireland
LESLIE SHERLOCK

7 The Eighth Amendment: planting a legal timebomb
STEPHANIE LORD

8 Abortion and the Law in Ireland
IVANA BACIK

9 Discourses on Foetal Rights and Women’s
Embodiment
URSULA BARRY

10 ‘On the Run’: a story from the London-Irish abortion
underground
ANN ROSSITER

11 Civic Feminism and Voluntary Abortion Care: a story
of ESCORT’s contribution to reproductive justice
RUTH FLETCHER

12 Speaking Up! Speaking Out! Abortion in Ireland,
exploring women’s voices and contemporary abortion
rights activism
ANNE QUESNEY

13 Prison Sentence for Abortion is Cruel and Unusual
Punishment
PEADAR O’GRADY

14 Ireland’s Abortion Ban: honour, shame and the
possibility of a moral revolution
LISA SMYTH

15 After Savita: migrant m/others and the politics of
birth in Ireland
RONIT LENTIN

16 Water, Water Everywhere … exploring education
geographies of abortion
AIDEEN QUILTY

17 Every Child a Wanted Child
LIA MILLS
18 Embodied Truths: women’s struggle for voice and
wellbeing in Irish maternity services
JO MURPHY-LAWLESS

19 Abortion Stigma: a health service provider’s perspective
MAEVE TAYLOR

20 The Fragility of Respectability for Lone Mothers
CATHERINE CONLON

21 A Holy Alliance? Obstacles to abortion rights in
Ireland North and South
GORETTI HORGAN

22 Abortion as a Women’s Health and Human Rights
Issue: National Women’s Council (NWCI) activism
on reproductive rights over the decades
ORLA O’CONNOR

23 Ireland’s First Abortion Legislation
CLARE DALY TD

24 The Radicalisation of a New Generation of Abortion
Rights Activists
CATHIE DOHERTY and SINÉAD REDMOND

25 Ireland’s Handmaid’s Tale
SINÉAD KENNEDY