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Press Release: Unacceptable and insulting that South-east hospital refuses to care for women and pregnant people

Anna Carnegie, spokesperson for the Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC) reacted to the news that St. Luke’s Hospital, the main hospital serving Kilkenny and Carlow has refused to provide abortion services….

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Let’s Talk About: What We Can Learn from Italy about “conscientious objection”

My name is Paola Rivetti and I am a member of MERJ: Migrants and Ethnic Minorities for Reproductive Justice. We formed some months before the referendum with the goal of…

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Let’s talk about: the refusal to provide abortion care, or ‘conscientious objection’

  In this blog post, we talk about why the refusal to provide medical treatment harms pregnant people and what needs to be done to support medical professionals in the…

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Let’s Talk About: The Abortion Legislation Being Debated In The Dáil Right Now

  The Oireachtas is currently debating the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018 which will legislate for abortion in Ireland, as we voted for in May. The Bill…

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Press release: More must be done to ensure truly accessible abortion care says Abortion Rights Campaign

The Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC) welcomes the introduction of legislation that will legalise abortion, but say that much more needs to be done to ensure that abortion care is accessible…