A multi-vocal narrative exploration of the impacts of criminalisation of abortion on everyday life

该项目是玛丽女王英语学院、地理学院和国际特赦组织的合作项目。它将创造性的写作技巧应用于社会科学研究，以开发一种创造性的方法，解决堕胎刑事化对爱尔兰、北爱尔兰(NI)和英国日常生活的影响。由于堕胎现在在新德里合法化，在爱尔兰合法化，因此有机会分析非刑事化/合法化的法律地位是否以及如何与刑事化制度不同。这些地区在设立服务方面的困难、耻辱和强烈的反选择现象意味着，法律改革并没有自动创造堕胎机会。实际上，英格兰有一部更宽松的堕胎法，因为1967年的法案以某些理由使堕胎合法化，但它仍然将堕胎纳入刑法。这三个邻近的司法管辖区表明，生殖是一个充满争议、国家权力和控制的场所，而这一法律过渡的重要时刻为批判性地分析刑事化的影响提供了机会。这个项目通过以艺术为基础的实验研究方法和写作实践，为我们理解生殖犯罪做出了重要贡献。该项目将与每个地区的参与者合作，开发汽车理论的文学流派，以产生一个多声音的叙事，将堕胎刑事化的影响理论化，并集中那些在不同堕胎制度下生活的人的声音。这项研究将调查犯罪化是如何经历的；犯罪化是如何组织和监管机构的；以及这些经验如何渗透到法律变化之外。该项目将建立在酷儿女权主义理论的框架内--该理论批评生殖是身体组织的场所--以及从获取途径方面探索堕胎生活经历的文学作品。大赦国际的性别、性倾向和身份研究小组在堕胎政策方面具有专门知识，并已将研究堕胎机构刑事化的影响确定为关键优先事项。除了大赦国际在堕胎定罪方面的研究和学术研究之外，该项目还将开发一种创造性的、实验性的、女权主义的研究方法，使讲故事的人分散中心，并与故事被讲述的人分享叙事构建的力量。这两个结果都将有利于大赦国际和以实践为基础的政策界。它们进一步促进了LAHP的优先事项，即创造一种“解决不平等和边缘化问题的变革性参与和实践方法”。产出将是：1)创造性--多语种叙事小说；2)关于堕胎定罪的影响和文学方法的批判性研究论文；3)影响力--大赦出版物/通过大赦传播研究成果。

This project is a collaboration between Queen Mary's School of English, School of Geography and Amnesty International. It applies creative writing techniques to social science research to develop a creative methodology that addresses the impact of criminalisation of abortion on everyday life in Ireland, Northern Ireland (NI) and England. With abortion now decriminalised in NI and legalised in Ireland, there are opportunities to analyse if and how the legal status of decriminalisation/legalisation differs from the regime of criminalisation. Difficulties in the setting up of services, stigma and a strong anti-choice presence in these regions means that legal changes have not automatically created abortion access. England, in practice, has a more permissive abortion law, since the 1967 Act legalised abortions on certain grounds, yet it still homes abortion in the criminal code. These three neighbouring jurisdictions demonstrate how reproduction is a site of contestation, state power and control, and this important moment of legal transition offers an opportunity to critically analyse the effects of criminalisation. This project offers an important contribution to our understanding of the criminalisation of reproduction through an arts-based experimental research methodology and writing practice. Collaborating with participants in each region, the project will develop the literary genre of auto-theory to generate a multi-vocal narrative that theorises the impacts of abortion criminalisation and centre the voices of those with experience living under different abortion regimes. The research will investigate how criminalisation is experienced; how criminalisation organises and regulates bodies; and how these experiences penetrate beyond a law change. The project will be situated in a framework of queer feminist theory - which has critiqued reproduction as a site through which bodies are organised - and literature that explores lived experiences of abortion in terms of access. Amnesty International's Gender, Sexuality and Identity research team has expertise in abortion policy and has identified research into the impacts of criminalisation of the body as a key priority. Adding to Amnesty's research and academic scholarship on abortion criminalisation, this project will develop a creative, experimental, feminist research methodology that de-centres the storyteller and shares the power of narrative construction with those whose story is being told. Both of these outcomes will benefit Amnesty and the practice-based policy world. They further contribute to LAHP's priority to create a 'transformative method of engagement and practice to address inequity and marginalisation'. The outputs will be: 1) creative - a multivocal narrative novel; 2) critical - research papers on the impacts of abortion criminalisation, and the literary methodology; 3) impactful - Amnesty publications/dissemination of research via Amnesty.