ABSTRACT
As mentioned in the Introduction, feminism in Ireland did not have a coherent position on abortion prior to the 1983 Constitutional 'pro-life' campaign. Rather, feminists were compelled to consider abortion politics and law primarily through the determined efforts of the anti-abortion right-wing. 1 This, combined with the hegemonic construction of anti-abortion politics as commonsensically 'national', seriously constrained the development of a mainstream feminist position on abortion access prior to the X case.
