Criminalization of women accessing abortion and enforced mobility within the European Union and the United Kingdom

Mecinska, Lula ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0741-130X , James, Carolyne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0784-3433 and Mukungu, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3403-8165 (2020) Criminalization of women accessing abortion and enforced mobility within the European Union and the United Kingdom. Women and Criminal Justice, 30 (5). pp. 391-406.

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Abstract

The article explores the impact of criminalization and restricted abortion access in Poland, Italy, and parts of the United Kingdom. We look at the ways in which the partial and extensive criminalization of abortion in the European Union and in the United Kingdom forces women to travel to access abortion care. At the core of our considerations is the interconnection of issues pertaining to criminalization and movement with citizenship, bodily integrity and autonomy, and the nation-state. By tracing these connections through an analysis of existing laws and scholarship, our concern here is to ask what discursive, narrative and theoretical resources feminist scholars might draw on and help co-produce in framing the interstices of criminalization of abortion and enforced mobility.

Item Type:	Article
Journal / Publication Title:	Women and Criminal Justice
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
ISSN:	1541-0323
Departments:	Institute of Business, Industry and Leadership > Policing and Criminology
Depositing User:	Christian Stretton
Date Deposited:	04 Jun 2020 11:45
Last Modified:	13 Jan 2024 11:00
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/5559

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