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Abortion and Ireland: How the 8th Was Overthrown

Abortion and Ireland: How the 8th Was Overthrown

Ralph, David

Hardcover

General Gender StudiesGeneral LawGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 303058691X
ISBN13: 9783030586911
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: Oct 22 2020
Pages: 133
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book asks the crucial question of how it came to pass that on the 25 May 2018, the Irish electorate voted by a landslide in favour of changing its abortion legislation that, for the previous thirty-five years, had been one of the most restrictive regimes in Europe. The author shows how, alongside traditional campaigning tactics such as street demonstrations, door-to-door canvassing, and the distribution of pro-choice merchandise and information leaflets, a key strategy of pro-choice advocacy groups was to encourage first-person abortion story-sharing by women in their efforts to repeal the Eighth Amendment, which had effectively banned abortion provision in the country. The book argues that a normalizing of abortion talk took place in the lead-up to the referendum, with women speaking publicly in unprecedented numbers about their abortion histories. These women storytellers were mirroring certain pro-choice movements in other contexts, where a new 'sound it loud, say it proud'narrative around abortion experiences has emerged as a central contemporary strategy for destigmatizing abortion discourse.

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