Category Archives: Repeal the 8th

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What unites sex workers’ rights and abortion rights movements?

February 6, 2017 - Breaking Silence, Opinion, Policy & Advocacy, Repeal the 8th, Stigma, Uncategorized - Tagged: , , , , , , - no comments

Reducing stigma & realising bodily autonomy By @CuteCatriona and Grace Wilentz The Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC) and the Sex Workers’ Alliance Ireland (SWAI) are part of a larger, integrated movement for…

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Strike 4 Repeal

January 30, 2017 - Breaking Silence, Creative and Direct Action, Events, Media, Opinion, Politics and Lobbying, Repeal the 8th, Stigma - Tagged: , , , , , - no comments

  August 26th, 1970, the United States. 24th October 1975, Iceland. 3rd October 2016, Poland. 19th October 2016, Argentina. On each of these dates, in each of these countries, thousands…

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My Bodily Autonomy, My Choice

January 29, 2017 - Breaking Silence, Opinion, Repeal the 8th, Stigma - Tagged: , , - no comments

I just got my organ donor card in the post. As with far too many things, I had been intending to do it for a very long time, but had…

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Abortion Rights Campaign analysis of Saturday 7 January session of the Citizens’ Assembly

January 10, 2017 - Media, Opinion, Policy & Advocacy, Repeal the 8th, Stigma - Tagged: , , , , , - no comments

  As we have done before, this weekend we followed the livestream of the Citizens’ Assembly (CA) proceedings as they met for the second time to discuss the Eighth Amendment….

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Abortion Rights Campaign Submission to the Citizens’ Assembly

December 24, 2016 - Policy & Advocacy, Repeal the 8th - Tagged: , , , , - no comments

  The Abortion Rights Campaign is the largest grassroots pro-choice organisation in Ireland. In the attached document, which represents the first half of our submission, we have outlined the reasons…

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