The Impact of the Eighth Amendment on Lived Experiences of Violence in Ireland

Carroll, Michaela Scalia

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Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Carroll, Michaela Scalia (creator); Sundstrom, Beth (Advisor); Gjelsvik, Annie (Reader); Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: women's health; Political violence; Intimate partner violence; Abortion
Extent:: v, 30 p.

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Abstract:: Abstract of THE IMPACT OF THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT ON LIVED EXPERIENCES OF VIOLENCE IN IRELAND, by MICHAELA SCALIA CARROLL, B.A., Brown University, May 2021. The repeal of the Eighth Amendment in Ireland was a groundbreaking cultural and political change in the arena of women’s rights and bodily autonomy, granting Irish women the right to receive abortion care in their home country. However, the embodied history of Ireland’s tacit support of many forms of violence and outright state-sponsored violence remains prescient in the lives of women impacted by the Eighth. In Her Shoes, an anonymous online storytelling campaign, allowed women to share their experiences under the Eighth Amendment as a method to convince undecided voters in advance of a vote on the Eighth. In their stories, hundreds of instances of interpersonal, obstetric, and state-sponsored violence spoke to the widespread impact of the Eighth Amendment and proved the need for compassionate care. In addition, experiences of support acted as a form of resistance to the dominant culture of violence and neglect, and illustrated the potential for repairing the harms done under the Eighth. This paper serves as both a retrospective of the violence pervasive in the reproductive experiences of Irish women and a prescription for how Ireland can support reproductive rights and justice in the present.
Notes:: Thesis (M. P. H.)--Brown University, 2021

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Carroll, Michaela Scalia, "The Impact of the Eighth Amendment on Lived Experiences of Violence in Ireland" (2021). Public Health Theses and Dissertations. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:35zaj6re/

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