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“Repeal Project seeks to vindicate the rights of Irish women by reflecting , respecting and representing the need and want for free safe and legal access to abortion in Ireland. Making it seen that this issue needs to be heard. ”
— Repeal Project
 
@galwayprochoice from left Lorraine Grimes, Yvonne Aherne & Colette Murphy down at the #ploughingchampionships chatting to people about #repealthe8th
"Mothers by choice not by Force" . 🖍Poster & Placard making session tonight Monday 18th 7p.m - 10p.m Outhouse Capel Street Hosted by Linda Kavanagh of @freesafelegal -The Abortion Rights campaign 🎨 #repealthe8th photos many taken by @kandlx_ 🎈
"Extract from a woman's personal experience with abortion shared with us " It's a very strange feeling for the political to suddenly become so intensely and intimately personal. I travelled in a week when @TwoWomenTravel and the Sydney Rose were trending and doing their bit to change the landscape of the abortion issue in Ireland. I was calling numerous clinics and services in the UK on the day that those two women documented the journey that I was to go through myself in a matter of days. My decision was personal, rapid and very certain. The certainty of my decision was the only easy thing. To be uncertain, to wrestle back and forth with the decision must add another unbearable weight to a woman. What made my experience traumatic and distressing was everything else related to my decision. I knew that I would not have my husband there to support me. I knew that I would be unable to choose to take the abortion pill as to do so would have necessitated either an overnight stay, or travelling back, potentially in great pain and bleeding. I knew that I would have to undertake a gruelling day, with travel, waiting time, numerous consultations and a surgical procedure – all on my own. Alone. Very fucking alone. I had to choose the surgical termination option, with all that that entailed; general anaesthetic and needles. I am terrified of needles. Over the three days between booking the procedure and actually travelling, it is no understatement to say that I was traumatised and in the depths of the most desolate despair I have ever experienced. Thoughts of suicide passed through. None of this was about the decision, but at the abject isolation, stigma, shame and distress that I was forced to feel in being made to leave my husband, my bed and my country behind to do something that I knew was right for me. I have never in my life felt loneliness or crushing, mind-altering anguish like that. Or anger. Over those three days, I cried endlessly, great big racking, shake-you-to-your-core sobs. When I wasn’t crying, I was detached, zombie-like, hardly believing that this was happening to me – that I was joining the ranks of women who had travelled to the UK" #repealthe8th
Author @oneilllou " I took this photo last year en route to the #MarchForChoice, silently praying that we wouldn't have to march in 2017. Yet here we are again... I won't be able to attend this year due to family obligations but I'm begging you all to go. It's three weeks from today(September 30th) - plenty of time to get organised and sort out travel plans. We have to make as much noise as we possibly can. How much longer will Irish women be treated as second class citizens, expected to smile politely while the state denies us bodily autonomy? Our wombs should not be the property of any government or church. September 30th. The Garden of Remembrance. 2pm. Follow the amazing @freesafelegal for more information #repealthe8th
Not at Home opens 14th September in NCAD Dublin and runs till the 17th as part of the @dublinfringefest . . NOT AT HOME is a durational art campaign by Emma Fraser (Nine Crows) & Grace Dyas (THEATREclub) to make visible the experiences of women who travel abroad to access safe abortion services, to highlight the consequences of Ireland's abortion laws, and to bring women who have travelled together in solidarity. #repealthe8th
@shin__shin " Sydney says REPEAL the 8th" September 30th there will be solidarity gatherings from #repealthe8th groups all over the world, check out @repeal8thglobal to find out more.
Extract for TheJournal.ie. . Politicians are about to get down to the business of scoping out an abortion referendum The Committee on the Eighth Amendment meets formally for the first time this week. IN APRIL OF this year, the Citizens’ Assembly voted to recommend radical changes to Ireland’s abortion regime. Crucially, they voted to replace or amend the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution which, except in very limited cases, effectively bans abortion in Ireland. In its place, the assembly’s members recommended that the constitution makes it clear that Ireland’s abortion regime should be decided by legislation. In other words, the laws that are passed through the Oireachtas. What this means is that the assembly members said it was the job of Ireland’s elected representatives to decide our abortion laws. From Wednesday, politicians will set about doing just that and they’ve been set a tight timeframe in which to do it. The committee has until Christmas to complete its work and deliver a report to the Oireachtas. With a tentative June/July date for a referendum, it’s likely that the government will then have to publish the proposed wording of the referendum early next year. The Oireachtas committee is duty-bound to consider the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly, so while any such proposals for Ireland’s abortion regime may be up in the air, it’s inconceivable that no referendum will be required. Changing the constitution, as the assembly recommended, would require a referendum. The committee has already elected its chair, Senator Catherine Noone, and Wednesday’s private meeting will finalise how the committee will undertake its task The first public meeting on 20 September will feature Justice Mary Laffoy, who was the chair of the Citizens Assembly. A decision has already been taken to break the committee’s work plan into three separate parts. ADVERTISEMENT The first module will be legally focused. It will look at the assembly’s recommendation that the Eighth Amendment be replaced or amended.
" More than 166, 951 women swept under Irelands rug. Ain't no rug big enough #repealthe8th". . 30th September March For Choice run by @freesafelegal is just weeks away. Save the date. . . Photo via @magpie_ie
MERJ- Migrants and Ethnic Minorities for Reproductive Justice is a new #repealth8th group we want to help spread the word about. - via MERJ Who are we? MERJ are a group of Migrants and Ethnic-minorities living in Ireland fighting for reproductive justice. We demand full control of our own bodies. We demand real access to good healthcare, including contraception, sexual healthcare, abortion and maternity services in Ireland, North and South. And we demand justice for those who have been denied these basic necessities in Ireland because of their class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, ability and/or legal status. . Come along to the Abortion Rights Campaign's March for Choice and march with other migrants, people of colour and ethnic-minorities in Ireland as we demand the government calls a referendum to repeal the 8th Amendment. We often hear about Irish women who are forced to travel to England to access abortion. But what about the stories of the people who can't travel to access healthcare due to legal status, lack of money, lack of childcare, disability, etc? Migrants and ethnic-minorities face enormous barriers to accessing abortion and maternity services and are disproportionately affected by the 8th amendment. Let's remember Savita Halapanavar, Ms. Y and the countless others. Let's make our voices heard. *** copy and paste this to their FB page https://www.facebook.com/MERJIreland/
Chris Andrews "I support the #repealthe8th because it is a human right. That may sound a bit of a cliche but I still feel it is true. I have two daughters and I believe it should be up to them and to all women to decide what is in their best interests." Photo @lhj__photography
92% of abortions are carried out before 13 weeks. @parents_4choice parents_4choice continue their "A fact a day" . "When given the choice, women access abortion services as early as possible. In countries where abortion is legal and accessible, late term abortions are very rare. In the U.S 92% of abortions are carried out within the first 13 weeks of pregnancy. However, sometimes the need for an abortion does not become apparent until later in pregnancy. For example, a diagnosis of foetal impairment is often only given after the 22 week scan. These cases are extremely rare but they do happen. Approximately 1.2 and 1.4 percent of abortions occur at or after twenty-one weeks gestation in the U.S. and U.K. respectively. Attempts to enforce legal time limits for abortion are often enacted with a view to lower the number of abortions. However, there is no evidence that this is effective. This also suggests somehow there exists a ‘correct’ number of abortions, further separating the procedure from routine medical care. Indeed ‘late-term’ abortions are subject to intensified stigma. Overall arbitrary limitations compound stigma and prevent women from accessing the highest possible standards of care. There is no right or wrong time to have an abortion, just as no one reason for accessing abortion services outweighs the other. Studies have shown that there are a variety of reasons that women need to access later term abortions. Due to our restrictive laws and cost of travel, women who live in Ireland actually tend to have abortions later than those who live in the UK. 1/3 of Irish abortions are carried out at 10 weeks compared to 1/5 of UK women. Liberalising abortion laws here would mean abortions are carried out earlier as they would be more easily accessible." Via @freesafelegal #repealthe8th
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