Category Archives: Stigma

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Guest post from Parents for Choice

Parents for Choice are a group of parents who support a person’s right to choose in pregnancy and childbirth. This group fully supports the repeal of the 8th amendment. Today, for Mothers…

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Share Your Abortion Story Ireland Project

The Share Your Abortion Story Project started as a reaction to the ubiquitous “Abortion tears her life apart” billboards that suddenly appeared in Dublin a few years ago. We wanted…

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Reproductive rights and partner abuse

Last Saturday a protest was held in Dublin calling for an end to the culture of violence against women. Unfortunately, reproductive rights and partner abuse are linked. An estimated 30% of abuse starts when…

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Men and the 8th Amendment

Abortion has always been seen as a women’s issue, but restriction of access to safe abortion services is a human rights issue. Men are also discriminated by and hurt by…

More merry myth-mongering (and muddled maths)

On 14 November an article titled ‘Ireland should not aspire to providing legalised killing‘, written by Breda O’Brien, was published in the Irish Times. It contains the usual inaccuracies, convenient…