You may have missed the big interview with Leo Varadkar in the Sunday Independent. We learn about his family, his personal trainer and the fact he does not do clinics and emails constituents instead, and his views on abortion. Just in case you hadn’t heard them yourself and were wondering I thought I’d reprint his […]
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Opinions regarding Irish attitudes to abortion in various circumstances has been measured in research commissioned by Marie Stopes Reproductive Choices released today. The research is being released in conjunction with a new booklet on reproductive choices being launched by the organisation on International Womens Day. (Marie Stopes is a Dublin based sexual and reproductive health […]
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The report released last week by Human Rights Watch on Abortion and Ireland was not covered on RTE news. I still have not figured out why programmes and editors ignored it. There was coverage in the national newspapers and TV3. The Guardian also gave significant coverage to the findings. In terms of international TV news, […]
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The Irish government should take all necessary steps, both immediate and incremental, to ensure that women have informed and un-coerced access to safe and legal abortion services within Ireland as an element of women’s exercise of their reproductive and other human rights. In the interim, the government should immediately ensure that those abortion services that […]
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While I was on holidays a work colleague texted me to say she had been canvassed by Cóir. The canvasser told her that if Lisbon was passed that she would be put down like a dog. My colleague has cerebral palsy. She didn’t argue back and managed to move away. I was shocked but not […]
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