| Interrogating Medical Tourism: Ireland, Abortion, and Mobility Rights. | |
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PMID: 21114071 Owner: HMD Status: In-Process |
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Medical tourism in Ireland, like in many Western states, is built around assumptions about individual agency, choice, possibility, and mobility. One specific form of medical tourism—the flow of women from Ireland traveling in order to secure an abortion—disrupts and contradicts these assumptions. One legacy of the bitter, contentious political and legal battles surrounding abortion in Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s has been securing the right of mobility for all pregnant Irish citizens to cross international borders to secure an abortion. However, these mobility rights are contingent upon nationality, social class, and race, and they have enabled successive Irish governments to avoid any responsibility for providing safe, legal, and affordable abortion services in Ireland. Nearly twenty years after the X case discussed here, the pregnant female body moving over international borders—entering and leaving the state—is still interpreted as problematic and threatening to the Irish state. |
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Authors:
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Mary Gilmartin; Allen White |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Signs Volume: 36 ISSN: 0097-9740 ISO Abbreviation: Signs (Chic) Publication Date: 2011 |
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Created Date: 2010-11-29 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9875007 Medline TA: Signs (Chic) Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 275-79 Citation Subset: Q |
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National University of Ireland, Maynooth. |
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