Repealing Ireland's Eighth Amendment: abortion rights and democracy today

Ela Drążkiewicz; Thomas Strong; Nancy Scheper-Hughes; Hugh Turpin; A. Jamie Saris; Joanna Mishtal; Helena Wulff; Brigittine French; Pauline Garvey; Daniel Miller; Fiona Murphy; Louise Maguire; Máire Ní Mhórdha

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Repealing Ireland's Eighth Amendment: abortion rights and democracy today

Ela Drążkiewicz^*, Thomas Strong, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Hugh Turpin, A. Jamie Saris, Joanna Mishtal, Helena Wulff, Brigittine French, Pauline Garvey, Daniel Miller, Fiona Murphy, Louise Maguire, Máire Ní Mhórdha

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In 2018, the Irish public voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution, which since 1983 banned abortion in the country. While this was a watershed moment in Irish history, it was not unconnected to wider discussions now taking place around the world concerning gender, reproductive rights, the future of religion, Church–State relationships, democracy and social movements. With this Forum, we want to prompt some anthropological interpretations of Ireland's repeal of the Eighth Amendment as a matter concerning not only reproductive rights, but also questions of life and death, faith and shame, women and men, state power and individual liberty, and more. We also ask what this event might mean (if anything) for other societies dealing with similar issues?.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	561-584
Journal	Social Anthropology
Volume	28
Issue number	3
Early online date	07 Sept 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12914
Publication status	Early online date - 07 Sept 2020

Keywords

abortion
Ireland
Repeal the 8th
reproductive rights
social change

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Anthropology
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Sociology and Political Science

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