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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
 
"When you target a woman who’s had an abortion for abuse or harassment, perpetuate lies to a person in crisis, use threatening or stigmatising language, sabotage a march, brandish doctored pictures of foetuses, refuse to condemn all of the above, then get litigious in a frenzied quest for ‘balance’ to lived experience and personal stories, you can’t be surprised if you start being accused of being impolite" Tara Flynn. Full piece can be read here http://www.headstuff.org/2017/04/tone-police-tara-flynn-repeal-8th/
👏Students from UCC at their #repealthe8th demo today.👏 . Alana Daly Mulligan pictured read her poem "The pictures you don't show" There is a time and a place For platitudes and placards Posters and paintings Your artistic vision Of a perfect punishment Romantic almost To push people away from Choice. You show pictures of victors, The women glad they kept on, The ones that kept going strong Held on. And that's all well and good- we praise motherhood But you have this idea in your head That pro-choice means pro-dead You display "Love Both" on highways and byways Inconsiderate to the broken ones who hide away But then you go on and say "She deserved it anyway" But I refer you to case....oh wait ...just another girl with a face Never mind, leave her behind In the dark At the mercy of the public park Where unfriendly fumbles Become courtside mumbles The Solicitor's arguments unravel As the judge bangs his gavel Not enough grounds for arrest We can't protest And then you paint a picture Of a frost bitten child Deposited into a silver eternal winter Covered in blood, God, Don't you show any love? Think about the ones who had only ever dreamed Of hearing the birthing scream But instead are deafened by silence Your horrific act of verbal violence Is another level of unkindness Stitch a picture of reality Into the banners you carry Understand the pallet of restriction You give in your contradictions Love for all Yet you barely respect the one that lives on So for your next graphic display I say There are pictures you don't show Innocent acts of passion, Moments of retraction A love backhanded by fate, dark allyways and dark dates, Don't make her wait, don't make that choice for any girl This is her life, and her world Treat her as if she were your own little girl Give her the choice.
***Dr Rhona Mahony, master of the National Maternity Hospital*** has said the Eighth Amendment “makes no clinical sense” before the foetus is viable. . Dr Mahony told the Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment that it the Constitutional provision “creates unacceptable clinical risk and should be removed”. . Clear consensus today from medical professional at the #8committee session as to why we need to #repealthe8th full piece --- paste in browser https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/rhona-mahony-eighth-amendment-creates-unacceptable-clinical-risk-1.3252250?mode=amp
Gary Gannon. Full piece linked in bio. . "I harbour no personal ambiguity on the topic of abortion. I am completely pro-choice on the very simple grounds that I trust women to be the ones best capable of making choices that concern their own bodies. It is easy for me to say that I am a pro-choice male who is committed to repealing the eight amendment to our constitution. I literally have the jumper. The source of my anxiety is that there is decades of hurt, pain and suffering behind that grotesque amendment which I can never fully understand. It will never be me exported from this country for a basic medical procedure. Pregnancy will never limit the opportunities that may arise in my life and nor will the eight amendment ever impede my access to medical best practice in an Irish hospital. I do not wish to unnecessarily take up space with my voice and my thoughts, when there are brilliant pieces and reasons and campaigns out there from the likes of Tara Flynn and Róisin Ingle, from campaigners such like Ailbhe Smyth and from groups like the National Women’s Council and the Abortion Right’s Campaign. I can confidently speak as an elected representative of a constituency that has a large proportion of low-income and migrant communities who are most disproportionately affected by our State’s restriction on reproductive choices. We rarely speak of the reproductive inequality that exists in our State. It is well documented that over 4000 Irish women travel abroad each year to avail of abortion services in neighbouring countries at a very significant financial cost. This option is of course not available to women of low-income so the eight amendment further compounds the structural injustices that already exists in our State. I can reiterate that I believe in choice. Childbirth comes with enormous economic penalties and I believe that a woman should get to choose if she is going to spend the next several decades of her life living in poverty. While canvassing for the 2014 local election, I met a lone parent mother who over a discussion concerning my position on the issue...#repealthe8th
We will be joining @rallyforchoice to support or Northern Irish comrades on next weekend. . Pic via @rallyforchoice 👏 Meeting at 2pm, Buoy Park, Belfast.
Living in Galway? Follow @galwayprochoice an active group campaigning for #repealthe8th . Sharon Nolan, queer activist and Social Democrats member Choice. You're required to choose and consent to be an organ donor. You choose and consent to give blood. Though when a person is pregnant, this basic human right of consent is taken away. The 8th must be repealed, safe affordable access to abortion must be achieved, and maternity care needs to stop being treated like a political football and be respected as procedures that take place between a person and their doctor. To me, reproductive rights is very much an LGBT+ issue. Queer cis women and trans people are directly affected by the 8th. We must include trans and non-binary voices in our fight for bodily autonomy. A uterus does not make you a woman, just like being without one invalidates your womanhood. It's a diverse issue, and the voices of the campaigns around it should reflect that. Photo by @saibhegan 🤝
"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
🤝 @hozier who is part of Artists for Repeal out marching on Saturday @artistsrepeal8 . It's great those with a platform using it. Thank you to all our male allies - brothers, friends, partners, husbands, fathers, brothers who are standing with us. #repealthe8th photo @corephotography.ie 🤝👋🙌
No woman has ever sat down with a Well Woman counsellor to talk about abortion as her preferred form of contraception. #8committee
"It's my 5th year marching with my glam nan, hopeful this is our last one, feeling hopeful for 2018" @leannewoodfull and her gran Mary. ❤️ Intergenerational #repealthe8th support
Very welcome news👏 . -Human rights commission calls for legalisation of abortion - . Pat Leahy - Irish Times. "he Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, the Government’s human rights watchdog, will on Wednesday call on the Government to introduce a referendum to delete the Eighth Amendment and go on to legislate for widespread access to abortion. The commission, set up to monitor and advise the Government on human rights issues, is to give evidence at the Oireachtas committee on the amendment on Wednesday. In its submission, which has been seen by The Irish Times, the commission will recommend that the Government proposes a referendum to abolish the Eighth Amendment entirely and then legislates for widespread access to publicly-funded abortion. The statement to the Eighth Amendment committee is the first time that the human rights commission has advocated the legalisation of general access to abortion in Ireland. Previously the commission’s position reflected that of UN bodies which have found that Ireland is in breach of international human rights obligations by not making abortion available in cases of fatal foetal conditions, following cases taken by women who travelled abroad for abortions in such circumstances." #repealthe8th
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