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Abortion Services

If you need to find out about abortion services speak to your GP, local sexual health or family planning centre. Find their numbers in the phone directory or contact the IFPA listed below for unbiased support/counselling.

Abortion is legal in Ireland, ‘if it is established…that there is a real and substantial risk to the life, as distinct from the health, of the mother, which can only be avoided by the termination of her pregnancy, such termination is permissible’. In practice, most Irish women travel to Britain, the Netherlands and Belgium.

Non-Directive Pregnancy Counselling on all options including abortion and Post-Abortion Counselling are available from:

IRISH FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION.

Counselling is available in Bray, Cork, Dublin City, Dundalk, Galway, Letterkenny, Limerick, Sligo, Tallaght, Waterford.

Confidential Pregnancy Counselling Helpline 1850 49 50 51

www.ifpa.ie post@ifpa.ie

Pro-Choice Groups in Ireland

Alliance for Choice

(National grassroots campaigning organisation)

61 Barrack Street, Cork.
email theallianceforchoice@eircom.net

Doctors for Choice

(Irish Pro-Choice Doctors Group)

P.O. Box 6862, Dublin 2.
email doctorsforchoice@eircom.net

Lawyers for Choice

email lawyersforchoice@eircom.net

Pro-Choice in Britain/Northern Ireland

Doctors for a Woman's Choice on Abortion
DWCA is a group of doctors who believe that the law should be changed to allow the woman herself to decide whether or not to have an abortion . This organisation covers Britain.

Pro-Choice Northern Ireland
PCNI is a weblog dealing with reproductive issues in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland from a pro-choice perspective

Pro-Choice Forum
The Pro Choice Forum website is designed for those who have an interest in social, legal and ethical aspects of abortion

Education for Choice
Education for Choice is a pro-choice organisation that works to enable young people to make informed choices around pregnancy and abortion

Voice for Choice
Voice for Choice is a national campaign by the Pro-Choice Alliance, a coalition of organisations calling for long overdue reform of the 1967 Abortion Act

Pro-Choice - International

International Federation of Professional Abortion and Contraception Associates
The federation works to obtaining the right to abortion for every woman; harmonization of legislation concerning abortion; freedom of access to all abortion methods in all countries.

Feminist Campus
The worlds largest pro-choice campus network.

Polish Federation for Woman and Family Planning
A federation of organisations to defend women's right to choose and campaign for liberalisation of Poland's restrictive abortion law.

Centre for Reproductive Rights
The Centre for Reproductive Rights is a nonprofit legal advocacy organisation dedicated to promoting and defending women's reproductive rights worldwide.

Medical Students for Choice
Medical Students for Choice® stands up in the face of opposition, working to destigmatize abortion provision among medical students and residents, and to persuade medical schools and residency programs to include abortion as a part of the reproductiv

Interact Worldwide
We provide sexual and reproductive health services in some of the world's poorest communities and campaign internationally for the right of all people to these services.

NARAL Pro-CHoice America
NARAL Pro-Choice America is the nation's leading advocate for privacy and a woman's right to choose, with more than one million members and supporters.

International Planned Parenthood Federation
The International Planned Parenthood Federation is the strongest global voice safeguarding sexual and reproductive health and rights for people everywhere.

I'm Not Sorry
I'mNotSorry. net is a site where women can share their positive experiences of abortion

The Truth About George - Women's Rights
The Truth About George [Bush] is a project of the National Organization for Women.

National Organization For Women
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States. Since its founding in 1966, NOW's goal has been to take action to bring about equality for all women.

IPAS
Ipas has worked for three decades to increase women's ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights and to reduce deaths and injuries of women from unsafe abortion.

Women's Global Network for Reproductive Health
The Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights is an autonomous network of groups and individuals in every continent who aim to achieve and support reproductive rights for women.

Violence Against Women

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
UNIFEM is the women’s fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women’s empowerment and gender equality.

Human Rights Watch - Women's Rights
Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world.

End Violence Against Women
Developed by the staff of the Center for Communication Programs (CCP) as part of its ongoing effort to collect and share documentation and communication materials produced in the worldwide struggle to end violence against women

The Global Gag Rule

Introduced in 1984 by President Reagan, the Global Gag Rule (the "Mexico City Policy") denies U.S. funding to any non-U.S. non-governmental organisation if, with their own funds and even in accordance with the laws of their own countries, they perform or actively promote abortion.

This effectively restricts non-abortion family planning programmes in many poor countries that depend on U.S. funds to help provide these services.

This policy was rescinded by President Clinton in 1992, but reinstated and extended by George W. Bush since January 2001, forcing NGOs to cease any work that jeopardised their U.S. funding. They also had to stop providing services permitted even under the Reagan administration, such as life-saving abortions, treatments for haemorrhaging following an unsafe abortion and even emergency contraception.

Access Denied - The Global Gag Rule Impact Project
The Global Gag Rule Impact Project's objective is to document the effects of the Global Gag Rule on the availability of life-saving family planning services, as well as on efforts to address other major threats to public health, including HIV/AIDS

The Center for Reproductive Rights
The Center for Reproductive Rights uses the law to advance reproductive freedom as a fundamental right that all governments are legally obligated to protect, respect and fulfill.

The Truth About George
The Truth About George has diligently documented the misdeeds of Bush and his cronies since 2002, revealing the cold hard facts about an administration bent on rewarding big corporations and the rich, turning back the clock on women's rights.

Religion and Sexual Rights

Catholics For Choice
Catholics for a Free Choice provides commentary and expert analysis on a wide range of subjects related to women, religion and reproductive health.

Department of Religion and Ethics at St Martin's College
Supports religious and moral education in schools.