‘Repeal the 8th’ in a Transnational Context: The Potential of SRHRs for Advancing Abortion Access in El Salvador
Smyth, Rebecca (2020) ‘Repeal the 8th’ in a Transnational Context: The Potential of SRHRs for Advancing Abortion Access in El Salvador. Feminist Review, 124 (1). pp. 192-202. ISSN 0141-7789
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Abstract
This article undertakes a discursive feminist reading of citizenship and human rights to understand, through the cases of Ireland and El Salvador, domestic abortion rights movements as part of a transnational women’s rights movement. While abortion has been partially decriminalised in Ireland, approximately 42 per cent of the world’s women1 of reproductive age still live in a country where abortion is prohibited entirely or only permitted to save a woman’s life or health (Singh et al., 2018, p. 4). In El Salvador, abortion is illegal and those suspected of having the procedure are prosecuted. As in Ireland, since 2012/2013 numerous controversies have brought the issue to wider public attention and have further galvanised the feminist movement to campaign for reform. Feminist abortion rights campaigns in both countries have connected important sites of activism and contestation: civil society, national parliaments, regional human rights systems and the United Nations.
| Item Type: | Article | ||||||
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| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0141778919895484 | ||||||
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| Subjects: | CAH16 - law > CAH16-01 - law > CAH16-01-01 - law | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Rebecca Smyth | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 10 Aug 2021 12:50 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 12 Jan 2022 14:08 | ||||||
| URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/12035 |
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