This article asks how anti-abortion discourses and dialogues engaged with ideas about motherhood, national identity, and women’s reproductive decision-making in 20th-century Ireland, particularly from 1967, when abortion was decriminalized in Britain, to 1983, when Ireland’s Eighth Amendment became the law of the land. It assesses the ways in which ‘pro-life’ advocates rejected the notion that women were independent adults capable of reproductive decision-making. Indeed, throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, anti-choice activists defined all Irish women as innately innocent, moral, and naturally desirous of domesticity and motherhood. Abortion, they argued, was encouraged, coerced, and even forced by outsiders or ‘others’. The arguments of some anti-abortion activists utilized meaningful themes in Ireland’s colonial and nationalist history, including the historical notion of Irish sacrificial motherhood, the depiction of Irish women as young and vulnerable, and the explanation of abortion as foreign, anti-Irish, and reminiscent of British colonial repression.

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女性和国家的错误：20 世纪爱尔兰的反堕胎话语

本文探讨了 20 世纪爱尔兰，尤其是从 1967 年英国将堕胎合法化到 1983 年爱尔兰第八修正案成为土地的法律。它评估了“支持生命”的倡导者拒绝女性是能够做出生育决策的独立成年人的观点的方式。事实上，在整个 1960 年代、1970 年代和 1980 年代，反选择活动家将所有爱尔兰女性定义为天真无邪、道德高尚，并且天生渴望家庭和母性。他们争辩说，堕胎是被外人或“其他人”鼓励、胁迫甚至强迫的。一些反堕胎活动家的论点利用了爱尔兰殖民和民族主义历史中有意义的主题，