This book provides a comprehensive study of abortion politics and policy in Northern Ireland.
Whilst there is a substantial amount of literature on abortion in Ireland and the rest of the
United Kingdom there has been scant academic attention paid to the situation in Northern
Ireland. Adopting a feminist institutionalist framework the book illustrates the ways in which
abortion has been addressed at both the national institution at Westminster and the devolved
institution at Stormont. Covering the period from early peace process in the 1980s to the
present day the text will be of interest to politics scholars but also sociologists
historians and students of Irish studies.
