Contract, Charity, and Honorable Entitlement: Social Citizenship and the 1967 Abortion Act in Northern Ireland after the Good Friday Agreement |
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Authors: | Side Katherine |
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Institution: | Katherine Side is an assistant professor in the Department of Womens Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. |
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Abstract: | This article investigates the extent to which womenspolitical, civil, and social citizenship rights in the postGood Friday Agreement (1998)period in Northern Ireland can be expanded. It argues that theGood Friday Agreement, as a framework document, offers someopportunity for the expansion of womens political andcivil citizenship rights. Legislative attempts to extend the1967 Abortion Act (United Kingdom) to Northern Ireland and recentefforts to have the existing law governing abortion in NorthernIreland clarified through the judiciary are examined to demonstratethe continued denial of womens social citizenship rights.Various routes to address Northern Irish womens accessto abortion services are assessed, and it is argued that extendingthe 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland, a long-standing demandof pro-choice womens groups, will insufficiently facilitatewomens access to social citizenship rights. Consistentwith recent directions in social policy scholarship, this articleargues that a recognition of agency as an outcome of individualand collective social action is necessary to access abortionand womens social citizenship rights in the postGoodFriday Agreement period in Northern Ireland. |
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