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Press Release: Police Rogue Crisis Pregnancy Agencies – not Pregnant People’s Choices
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24 Sep, 2021
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The Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC) calls on Health Minister, Stephen Donnelly, to act now on Rogue Crisis Pregnancy Agencies – a toxic hangover of the era of the 8th Amendment,…
Why I’m Marching: If we stand still, we’ll be pushed back
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24 Sep, 2021
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Sam Boland is a member of Rebels For Choice Like most of us, for me, ‘Why I March?’ is in fact two questions – who I march for, and why….
Press Release: Legislation for Safe Access Zones is urgently required
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23 Sep, 2021
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The Abortion Rights Campaign calls on Health Minister, Stephen Donnelly, to act on Safe Access Zones. When legislating for abortion services in 2018, then Health Minister, Simon Harris, acknowledged that…
Why I’m Marching: Accessibility is *still* an issue
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23 Sep, 2021
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Evie Nevin from Disabled People for Choice I still haven’t felt the relief, even 3 years after Ireland voted overwhelmingly to Repeal the 8th. People with disabilities were disproportionately affected…
Press Release: ARC Research Highlights Significant Barriers to Safe Abortion Care
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22 Sep, 2021
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The Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC) today launched the results of a research survey evaluating individuals’ experiences of abortion care in Ireland since the Repeal of the 8th Amendment. The findings…
Press Release: Abortion must be decriminalised
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21 Sep, 2021
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The Abortion Rights Campaign calls on Stephen Donnelly, Minister for Health, to decriminalise abortion now. “Pregnant people in the most difficult of circumstances are still being forced to leave this…
Why I’m Marching: over 8,000 reasons per year
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21 Sep, 2021
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Mary, ARC Volunteer In 2018, the year that well over a million people voted to Repeal the hideous 8th Amendment, I (like lots of you) did a lot of talking…
Press Release: Unacceptable that 90% of GPs and half of maternity hospitals still refuse to provide abortion care.
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20 Sep, 2021
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The Abortion Rights Campaign calls on the government to tackle refusal of care and instutitional obstruction so that abortion can be accessed locally across the country. “The refusal to provide…
Why I’m Marching: I am tired. And I am angry.
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20 Sep, 2021
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Helen Stonehouse is a queer neurodivergent parent and current co-convener of the Abortion Rights Campaign. Picture is from the last in person March for Choice in 2019, when she was…
Why I’m Still Marching: People deserve dignity and safety
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16 Sep, 2021
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Joanne Kompa My name is Joanne and I’m still here. Some of you might remember me from Saturday stalls in the run up to the Referendum, some from the online…
