Technologies of protest in Irish abortion activism

ABSTRACT In the decades before the historic legalization of abortion in the Republic of Ireland in 2018, activists used creative methods to educate, agitate, and advocate for changes in abortion law and access. In the 2000s, the availability of the “abortion pills,” mifepristone and misoprostol, beg...

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Access
Activism
Activists
Advocacy
Decriminalization
Demonstrations & protests
Illegal abortion
Ireland
Legalization
medication abortion
Mifepristone
protest
reproduction
Social movements
Tactics
technology
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