Tag: abortion rights

One Day More, claiming charitable status (sort of), ‘support’ pregnant women with serious fetal abnormalities. Their ethos is anti choice. Their representative at the committee mtg, Ms McDermot, a solicitor herself, says they never complained doctors they claim were abusive to their members. I find this, and their maybe-maybe not charitable status very strange.

I sit on the Joint committee for Repeal of the 8th amendment. Dr Caitriona Henchion, from the IFPA was like a breath of fresh air. It was very helpful to put questions to her about the socio-economic factors surrounding abortion and choice. I was glad too, to have the opportunity to thank the IFPA for all their good work through the years, and from a personal perspective

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF EUROS OF PUBLIC MONEY IS GOING TO ANTI CHOICE ORGANISATIONS. I sit on the Joint committee on Repeal of 8th. Yesterday reps from the Crisis Pregnancy Programme (CPP), a state agency funded through the HSE, attended the committee meeting. The CPP provides funding for counselling services for women with crisis pregancies. About a third of the counselling centres nationwide, funded through the CPP with public money, wont give women who need it, information on clinics in England or elsewhere, where they might go for an abortion. This is outrageous!

Bríd is on the Dáil committee to consider the findings of the Citizen’s Assembley regarding REPEAL 8TH AMENDMENT. Dr Anthony McCarthy, a very clear and experienced psychiatrist working in maternity care responded to her questions and showed that the resources needed to implement the rediculous PLDPA are woefully inadequate. 8.11.17

I’m on the Dáil committee to consider the findings of the Citizen’s Assembley regarding REPEAL 8TH AMENDMENT. Yesterday, we had the opportunity to ask questions about the statistics available internationally and as far as possible, nationally, which was very helpful. If anyone would like a copy of the these stats, please get in touch. The clip is a bit ‘glitchy’, but you get the sense of it.

Tens of thousands marched for a woman’s right to choose. This is a small clip of some of the People Before Profit Pro Choice group