Pro-Choice Ireland

Supporting the legalisation of safe abortion in Ireland.

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Choice Ireland

Reproductive freedom is multi-faceted and we seek to ensure the freedom to pursue all reproductive...

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Dublin protest- pregnant suicidal woman migrant denied an abortion #repealthe8th

Protest at treatment of suicidal, raped & pregnant migrant denied an abortion, Dublin, 20th August

[beanantea]

What will it take for the Irish State to realise that the abortion “legislation” we currently have is completely useless? How many women must die, be tortured, and be shipped overseas before they take responsibility for their shoddy guidelines?  Please share this around as much as possible. Ireland is NOT a safe place for women seeking abortion. Current guidelines would have a woman in prison for 14 years for taking abortive medication, and that is an absolute disgrace.  A link to the event page is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/266843983502589 We are not incubators. We are not vessels. We will NOT stay quiet.

[beanantea]

Protest at the treatment of suicidal women seeking abortion and a call to repeal the 8th  This is happening tomorrow at the spire. PLEASE share this with everyone, invite as many people as you can, kick up a fuss, get angry, get your stompy boots on. 

[beanantea]

They said they could not do an abortion. I said, ‘You can leave me now to die. I don’t want to live in this world anymore’

The woman refused an abortion says she was raped but did not know she was pregnant until she arrived in Ireland

Yo this country is fucked up beyond belief. 

[beanantea]

Okay guys, I’m going to get serious for a minute.  If you’re not in Ireland at the moment, you may not know about the situation regarding the laws on abortion. It is completely illegal, even in cases of rape, incest, fatal foetal abnormality, and other such things.  Women have died in this country because inability to have an abortion put strain on their health. A woman who wasn’t even Irish begged for an abortion because her child was about to die in the womb. The complications arising from her case resulted in her contracting septicaemia, organ failure, and tragically dying.  In 1992, the X Case took place, involving a 14-year-old girl, knowns only as x, who became pregnant after being raped. Instead of offering help to the girl, who because suicidal, they prevented her from travelling out of the country for an abortion. Any Irish woman* who needs an abortion has to travel to the UK, which means if you don’t have the money, you’re out of luck. What does the Irish Government have to say about this? Well, recently the UN confronted the Government about our abortion laws, pointing out that we were breaking Human Rights laws, and that the Government treated Irish women* like vessels. Joan Burton, the Tánaiste, said that there will be no referendum on abortion in this Government’s lifetime. They’re literally saying that they don’t care enough to rectify Human Rights breaches. I am NOT a vessel, and neither are you. Make your voice heard. Come to the March for Choice on the 27th of September in Dublin.  Never give up, never stay quiet.

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The 2014 March for Choice will be taking place on the 27th of September, please share and invite your friends to support the cause! Facebook event here

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Really good response at central bank yesterday for international womens day. Pictures include Laura Fitzgerald, speaker from ROSA, ROSA stall, activists:3 if you haven’t heard of ROSA please do kik me (carahthemongoose) for more information. I will be putting up more pictures later:3

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and for those interested, you can find the report HERE

[jadelyn]

Just in case any dudebros are unclear on what this means: it means that your buddy who totally just had some bitch trying to ruin his life by accusing him of rape…almost certainly actually did rape her.  

Just keep that in mind.

[just-katarin]

Yeah man, imagine that, bitches don’t be lying.

[rememberyes]

Can we put this into context? It means that 99.4% of rape allegations are true. 

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It means that 99.4% of rape allegations are true.

[autistically-adhd]

SIGNAL BOOST ALSO GET THIS INTO PEOPLES HEADS

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and that’s just the number of rapes that get talked about enough to become “allegations”

[bidyke]

#Keep that in mind #Next time you want to reblog #Rape apologist bullshit

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I want this on my blog because I think it is important. If you have any problems with this, message me.

[fatanarchy]

Pregnant women who choose not to continue their pregnancy do NOT owe it to the infertile to choose adoption. They are not brood mares for those who cannot bear their own children.

-Christine Cugino

"They are not brood mares for those who cannot bear their own children."

(via fatanarchy)

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Before the Boat

Set on the Atlantic coast of Ireland, ‘Before the Boat’ is a short film about the lengths and sacrifice needed, to take control of one’s own body and future.

A very interesting short film planned for shooting this March in Galway about abortion in modern Ireland. Might interest some people here!

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March for Choice is on this Saturday, spread the word, tell your friends, and march for a woman*'s right to choose!

[uiucnow]

Ireland performed its first-ever legal abortion, and it saved a dying woman’s life. Source: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/08/23/2516291/ireland-legal-abortion/

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Protestants for Choice

For us the right to life and the sacredness of life mean that there should be no absolute or...

For those interested!

[iamafeministtbh]

- UL student Úna Roddy writes about the shocking level of judgement and unprofessionalism she experienced when trying to get a prescription for ‘The Pill’ from her family doctor. … It came to July and my previous prescriptions had run out. So I made an appointment with my local GP, in the anti-metropolis. My natural instinct was to bring up the subject of contraception with a brass neck and a little bit of a blush, after all Doctor X has nursed me from all manner of sniffles and snuffles since I was a child. The onslaught of judgement was so unexpected and severe that it literally took my breath away. Dr X began by assuming I had a boyfriend if I wanted to go on the pill, when in fact my relationship status is none of his business or anybody else’s. He didn’t seem to understand the fact that this is the 21st century and my contraception and my relationship status are two completely unrelated things. He then went on to declare that “co habiting” (he made little quotation marks with his hands) couples had a higher rate of break ups than married couples. He also threw in the fact that ‘fellas’ often experience so much they don’t know what to settle for. Aside from the fact that I’m not something to settle for, it really didn’t seem to register that I was having sex because I wanted to – not because my imaginary boyfriend did. I felt so affronted by this blatantly sexist and archaic comment I just had to ask what the hell this had to do with my contraception. He immediately backtracked and threw statistics at me about how the majority of UK Doctors wouldn’t prescribe their wives the pill; and how it could lead into the whole abortion debate. With this he lit my ever short fuse and I stated in no uncertain terms my extremely clear pro-choice views on abortion and how the pill had nothing to do with it. My doctor attacked my views as outdated and immature. In my defence I stated that I didn’t care what he thought, because they were my views and had nothing to do with him. He simply stated I was just wrong. I’m generally stubborn to a fault, but in coming up against this wall of judgemental criticism so unexpectedly, I just gave in and left the surgery. His parting words were “I hope I’ve given you something to think about” I replied rather tartly “Not at all”. I was in complete shock for the first while, with a thin veil of rage. But as they both wore off I started to analyse every word said in the surgery, something that kept coming up alongside his refusal to administer the pill was “But I don’t want you to get pregnant”. My response was, naturally, well then give me the pill. The intense message that was conveyed was that I shouldn’t be having sex, in a committed relationship or not. In this day and age when the media is saturated with sex and teenagers are having sex ever younger surely the message to a consenting adult should be ‘be safe’ rather than ‘be ashamed’? Sex is completely natural thing, yet this trusted medical practitioner made me feel ashamed rather than responsible for protecting myself. This horrible catholic guilt regarding our own sexuality still festers in the more rural parts of Ireland. It makes me furious that the general psyche of our nation would accept that a doctor reserves the right not to administer this drug. I had done three courses of the pill, I was well aware of the risks and consequences and I am a consenting adult choosing to be responsible; yet the doctor still asked were my parents aware of why I was there. It occurred to me, while filling the forms in for my new doctor, what if I had been going in there a younger, more impressionable girl trying to do the responsible thing? Having sat through the tirade that was directed at me I think I can confirm that a less stubborn girl would have probably never had the confidence to ask for contraception again. This seemed so dangerous to me that I felt the need to out my contraception problems, very publicly. The very idea of this betrayal of power and how Dr X’s refusal to administer the pill can come under the umbrella of ‘religious beliefs’ made me so angry I couldn’t keep this story to myself. I don’t care if the world knows I’m on the pill. Or that I’m having sex. What I do care about is the fact that people like Dr X remain in their unquestionable position of authority. I care that I’m not allowed to name him in this article because he’s still my family’s doctor. Even my very liberal mother saw nothing wrong with a doctor refusing to administer a drug that I had already been on and was taking under full knowledge of the consequences. Her attitude of ‘Doctor Knows Best’ makes me incredibly angry. This tendency to never question figures of authority has caused so much trouble in regard to the Catholic Church and our corrupt politicians, yet still prevails. I am a consenting adult having sex, and nobody reserves the right to pass judgement on me.

Mixing Moralism with Medicine; I was Refused the Pill from my Family Doctor. | Irish Student Left Online (via iamnotafeministtbh)

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