This article analyses abortion health activism (AHA) in the Irish context. AHA is a form of activism focused on enabling abortion access where it is restricted. Historically, AHA has involved facilitating the movement of abortion seekers along ‘abortion trails’ (Rossiter, 2009). Organisations operate transnationally, enabling access to abortion care across borders. Such AHA is a form of feminist anarchism, resisting prohibitions on abortion through direct action. However, AHA work has changed over time. Existing scholarship relates this to advancements in medical technology, particularly the emergence of telemedicine and the increased use of early medical abortion. This article goes beyond those explanations to explore how else AHA has changed by comparing the work of AHA before and after the Republic of Ireland’s referendum on abortion in May 2018. Based on this, I argue that there is a visible shift in the politics of AHA. Drawing on qualitative data from research on AHA organisations along the Liverpool–Ireland Abortion Corridor, specifically those based outside Ireland, the article argues that in the aftermath of the referendum, Irish AHA has increasingly moved towards decolonising feminist activism, thus drawing attention to the relationship between abortion health activists (AHAs) and broader political discourses entangled with abortion law reform.

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从女权主义无政府状态到非殖民化：了解废除第八修正案前后的堕胎健康行动主义

本文分析了爱尔兰背景下的堕胎健康行动主义 (AHA)。AHA 是一种激进主义形式，专注于在受限制的情况下提供堕胎机会。从历史上看，AHA 参与了促进堕胎寻求者沿着“堕胎之路”的运动（Rossiter，2009）。组织跨国运作，使人们能够跨越国界获得堕胎护理。这种 AHA 是一种女权主义无政府主义，通过直接行动抵制堕胎禁令。然而，AHA 的工作随着时间的推移发生了变化。现有的学术研究将这与医疗技术的进步联系起来，特别是远程医疗的出现和早期药物流产的增加使用。本文超越了这些解释，通过比较爱尔兰共和国于 2018 年 5 月进行堕胎公投前后 AHA 的工作，探讨了 AHA 的其他变化。基于此，我认为 AHA 的政治发生了明显的转变. 根据对利物浦 - 爱尔兰堕胎走廊沿线的 AHA 组织的研究定性数据，特别是那些位于爱尔兰以外的组织，文章认为，在公投之后，爱尔兰 AHA 越来越倾向于去殖民化女权主义激进主义，从而引起人们对这种关系的关注堕胎健康活动家 (AHA) 和与堕胎法改革相关的更广泛的政治话语之间的冲突。