Reimagining Faith and Abortion (eBook)

Fiona Bloomer is Senior Lecturer in the School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences at Ulster University. Her research focuses on abortion, abortion policy and faith. Kellie Turtle is Research Associate in the School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences at Ulster University. Her research examines the development of progressive faith discourse on abortion in Northern Ireland and its impact on abortion law and policy.

1. Introduction - Kellie Turtle and Fiona Bloomer
2. Redeemed by reproduction? Exploring compulsory motherhood and abortion stigma - Selina Palm
3. Suspending judgement: exploring pedagogical approaches that centre the contextual embodied experiences of those affected in the process of sexual reproductive health and rights decision making and ethical reflection - Charlene van der Walt
4. Pastoral guidelines through a reproductive justice lens - Emilie Weiderud
5. Abortion in Malaysia: challenges and necessity - Syarifatul Adibah
6. The power of religious voice in abortion law reform advocacy: inter-faith approaches to abortion law reform in Malawi - Brian Ligomeka
7. Abortion and faith in Latin America: an interfaith perspective - María de los Ángeles Roberto
8. Sri Lanka: abortion and Buddhism – a conversation with Dakshitha Wickremarathne - Dakshitha Wickremarathne and Fiona Bloomer
9. Reflections on faith-based abortion advocacy as the US faces a future without Roe: a conversation with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg - Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg and Kellie Turtle
10. Marking the absence of an embodied theology: an analysis of how people of faith talk about abortion in Northern Ireland - Nóirín MacNamara and Fiona Bloomer
11. Seeds of hope in progressive Christian discourse on abortion in Northern Ireland - Kellie Turtle
12. Faith voices for reproductive justice in Northern Ireland - Kellie Turtle and participants from Faith Voices for Reproductive Justice
13. Conclusion - Kellie Turtle and Fiona Bloomer