Dr Catherine Conlon (Associate Professor, School of Social Work and Social Policy) and Dr Kate Antosik-Parsons (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, School of Social Work and Social Policy), along with Dr Deirdre Duffy (Lancaster University), are delighted to announce the publication of the Irish Journal of Sociology Special Issue: After the Review: What Next for Irish Abortion Services?
This special issue, edited by Kate Antosik-Parsons, Catherine Conlon and Deirdre Duffy makes a significant contribution as it explores the changing landscape of abortion in Ireland from multiple perspectives, using a diverse range of methodological lenses and ways of knowing and speaking. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, embracing the different ways that actors within this landscape research and write about change, and drawing together overviews of the implementation of services with propositions for moving forwards. Importantly, it offers insights for other jurisdictions as well as scholars working on reproductive politics, health, and abortion beyond Ireland.
All articles are available open access.
Editorial
Kate Antosik-Parsons, Catherine Conlon and Deirdre N. Duffy
After the review: What next for Irish abortion services? Introduction to the
special issue
Articles
Kathryn Ammon and Catherine Conlon
From choice to labour: Understanding ‘aborting labour’ in Irish at-home
early medication abortion experiences
Kate Antosik-Parsons, Catherine Conlon, Fiona Bloomer and Emma Campbell
Gender, nation and reproduction in the afterward of repeal and
decriminalisation
Claire Murray and Mary Donnelly
Providing abortion care: Navigating the regulatory framework
Deirdre Duffy and Lorraine Grimes
More than committed providers: Healthcare providers, practice learning and
building abortion services in Ireland
Alana Farrell
After The Review: Law, abortion, reform and the legacies of information
restrictions
Mary Favier and Catherine Conlon
Abortion provision in Ireland: Implementation and advocacy, an Irish and
international perspective from practice
Ruth Fletcher
Witnessing legal sources of time for better abortion care
Carolina Uribe, Katie L. Togher, Sara Leitao, Keelin O’Donoghue and Deirdre Hayes-Ryan
Termination of early pregnancy in Ireland: Review of the first four years of
inpatient service at a tertiary maternity unit
Charlotte Waltz
Ethnographic fiction as feminist practice: Reflections on approaches to lived experiences in post-legalisation abortion governance in Ireland