Category Archives: Free Safe Legal

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Forcing people to travel for abortion is a serious risk to public health, say activists

In a joint statement the Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC), the London-Irish Abortion Rights Campaign and the Abortion Support Network (ASN) have called on the Irish Government to affirm the rights…

Members of Leitrim ARC pictured in front of a Vote Yes mobile billboard

Change by Candlelight

Bernie Linnane – Leitrim ARC On a chilly November afternoon, in 2012, I stood among a small crowd in Sligo. We had gathered to protest, to express our anger, our…

How the North West was won

Lyn Brookes – Leitrim ARC I arrived in Ireland in October 2008 aged 48 years.  I had a hysterectomy at 33 so things like contraception and unexpectedly finding myself pregnant…

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We are the women that repealed the 8th.

G.K. I was involved with Dún Laoghaire Repeal the 8th which subsequently became Dún Laoghaire together for yes.  We first met in a local pro-choice pub in September 2016. I…

Repealing the 8th campaign, 2018

Gráinne Fallon – volunteer with Together for Yes Offaly Abortion on the radio, again. I shift slightly; three labours in four years will do that to you. The lack of…