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What happened during Ireland’s first year of legal abortion?
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23 Sep, 2020
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With International Safe Abortion Day on the horizon, this is a good time to reflect on Ireland’s first year of legal abortion provision. The Government’s first Annual Report on the…
Why I’m still marching
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21 Sep, 2020
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Helen Stonehouse Alright I confess – I won’t actually be marching anywhere this year for International Safe Abortion Day. Perhaps I’ll do a couple of laps of the garden with…
Submission to the Department of Justice and Equality on the Operation of Part 4 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017
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08 Sep, 2020
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The Abortion Rights Campaign welcome the review into the 2017 law on sex work. Rather than protect sex workers, the current law actively harms sex workers and puts them at…
Press release: Abortion data shows progress made in abortion care but way to go to universal access
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30 Jun, 2020
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“The release of Ireland’s first abortion figures demonstrates a reality we have long known to be true: Irish people get abortions. They always have, they always will. Now, for the…
Press release: UK DOH abortion figures show hundreds still have to travel for care
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11 Jun, 2020
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From: Alliance for Choice, the Abortion Rights Campaign & Abortion Support Network UK DOH abortion figures show that hundreds still have to leave the island for care 1,389 women gave…
Forcing people to travel for abortion is a serious risk to public health, say activists
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09 Jun, 2020
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In a joint statement the Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC), the London-Irish Abortion Rights Campaign and the Abortion Support Network (ASN) have called on the Irish Government to affirm the rights…
There was a gang of us
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31 May, 2020
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Caroline McGrotty I’m not sure when I ‘became’ pro-choice, I think I have always been this way. I don’t remember ever NOT being pro-choice. My first experience of protesting or…
Where the wild rebels are
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28 May, 2020
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Guen Murroni , writer, filmmaker and activist These are frames from filming on the run up to the referendum. I flew over from London as I wouldn’t miss it – I…
I will carry this fire with me
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28 May, 2020
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Siobhán Shiels On this #repealaversary I wish to remember the who, the why and the effect being part of the Inishowen Together Repeal campaign has had on my life. Repeal…
Repeal pants
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27 May, 2020
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Jessie de Boe is a visual artist whose work explores themes of nudity and the body. I created these images to express my solidarity with Irish women and to show my…
