Book Talk: Pills & Protest: Abortion Access in Ireland by Brenna McCaffrey

Join us for a book talk featuring CUNY Graduate Center's Anthropology PhD and Women and Gender Studies certificate alum, Brenna McCaffrey as we discuss the research that went into Pills & Protest: Abortion Access in Ireland, her newest publication.

For more of Brenna's work, click this link: https://www.brennamccaffrey.org/ 

To learn more about the book visit: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/pills-and-protest-9798881807986/  or continue reading below. 

"The Republic of Ireland lived under one of the strictest abortion bans in Europe for decades, then in 2018, their voters passed one of the most liberal abortion provision schemes in the world.

Pills & Protest: Abortion Access in Ireland tells the story of how feminist activists strategically used abortion pills to help people while abortion was illegal and to influence the legal and medical changes to come. Drawing on three years of interviews with activists, doctors, and politicians in Ireland, Brenna McCaffrey illuminates the story of how the abortion pill transitioned from a controversial object to a legally recognized medical solution, demonstrating how understanding medication abortion is essential to understanding reproductive healthcare in Ireland – and globally – today."