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What unites sex workers’ rights and abortion rights movements?

February 6, 2017 - Breaking Silence, Opinion, Policy & Advocacy, Repeal the 8th, Stigma, Uncategorized - Tagged: , , , , , , - no comments

Reducing stigma & realising bodily autonomy By @CuteCatriona and Grace Wilentz The Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC) and the Sex Workers’ Alliance Ireland (SWAI) are part of a larger, integrated movement for…

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Strike 4 Repeal

January 30, 2017 - Breaking Silence, Creative and Direct Action, Events, Media, Opinion, Politics and Lobbying, Repeal the 8th, Stigma - Tagged: , , , , , - no comments

  August 26th, 1970, the United States. 24th October 1975, Iceland. 3rd October 2016, Poland. 19th October 2016, Argentina. On each of these dates, in each of these countries, thousands…

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My Bodily Autonomy, My Choice

January 29, 2017 - Breaking Silence, Opinion, Repeal the 8th, Stigma - Tagged: , , - no comments

I just got my organ donor card in the post. As with far too many things, I had been intending to do it for a very long time, but had…

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Abortion Rights Campaign analysis of Saturday 7 January session of the Citizens’ Assembly

January 10, 2017 - Media, Opinion, Policy & Advocacy, Repeal the 8th, Stigma - Tagged: , , , , , - no comments

  As we have done before, this weekend we followed the livestream of the Citizens’ Assembly (CA) proceedings as they met for the second time to discuss the Eighth Amendment….

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Travelling art exhibition highlights urgent need for reform of Ireland’s abortion laws

January 4, 2017 - ARC Subgroups, Breaking Silence, Creative and Direct Action, Events, Media, Press Release, Stigma, Uncategorized - Tagged: , , , , , , , - no comments

Travelling art exhibition highlights urgent need for reform of Ireland’s abortion laws At least 10 women and girls each day travel to the UK to access abortion services DONEGAL, January…

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