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• 1.   Narratives of Irishness and the problem of abortion: the X case 1992

  This article discusses the ramifications of the 1992 "X Case" in which an Irish High Court rescinded the constitutional right to travel of a 14-year-old rape victim who intended to obtain an abortion in England

  

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  PIP: This article explores the ramifications of the 1992 "X Case" in which an Irish High Court rescinded the constitutional right to travel of a 14-year-old rape victim who intended to obtain an abortion in England. The article opens by noting that this decision made the subordinate role of women in Ireland painfully visible, thus allowing Irish feminists to win a degree of more...

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  Republic of Ireland

  Fem Rev, 1998 Autumn
  L. Smyth

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