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Welcome to the website of the Safe and Legal in Ireland Campaign.
SAFE AND LEGAL - Ivana Bacik
spokesperson of the Safe and Legal in Ireland Campaign for Abortion
The Safe and Legal in Ireland campaign is of unique significance, as it represents the first major initiative aimed at moving forward on abortion in this country. Previous campaigns on abortion have always been led by anti-choice groups seeking further regressive and unworkable responses to abortion... Read more
OPINION - Nuala O'Faolain
'Patronising women and restating a belief about what God wants women to do is not a debate'
HOLLOW laughter. That's the best I can do in response to the plea last week, from the Roman Catholic archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin, that there should be a national debate on the subject of embryos... Read more
THE 8TH AMENDMENT 1983 - Cathleen O'Neill
The 8th amendment also known as 40.3.3 of the Irish Constitution was voted on in 1983 at the behest of the anti-choice movement and equated the life of a woman to equality with that of a fertilised egg... Read more
ANTENATAL DIAGNOSIS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
- Barbara Hewson
According to evidence given to the All-Party Oireachtas Committee in 2000, Ireland has the second highest risk of neural tube defects in the world. This is not a record of which any country can be proud. But the European Court of Human Rights’ recent ruling in D v Ireland suggests that Ireland may now have to provide termination of pregnancy to women diagnosed with lethal fetal anomaly. The 41-page decision, published on 5 July, has major implications for pregnant women and maternity hospitals, as well as for the media... Read more
IFPA 13 POINT POLICY ON ABORTION
Here we reprint the Irish Family Planning Association's 13 point policy on abortion adopted by the association... Read more
GLOBAL NEWS-COLOMBIA
LANDMARK DECISION BY COLOMBIA'S HIGHEST COURT LIBERALISES ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST RESTRICTIVE ABORTION LAWS
Colombia’s Constitution Requires Government to Allow for Abortion in Some Cases. May 11, 2006 | New York, NY
In a landmark decision, Colombia’s highest court has ruled that abortion must be permitted when a pregnancy threatens a woman’s life or health, in cases of rape, incest and in cases where the fetus has malformations incompatible with life outside the womb. Until today, Colombia outlawed abortion in all circumstances... Read more
First legal abortion in Colombia
Date: Friday, August 25, 2006
Source: BBC News
Author: Jeremy McDermott
DATELINE: Bogota
Colombia's first legal abortion has taken place after the deeply Catholic nation legalised the procedure in May... Read more
GLOBAL NEWS/CANADA
JUDGE ORDERS QUEBEC TO REIMBURSE ABORTION COSTS
- Olivier Bourque
Canadian Press
MONTREAL - A court judgment that orders the Quebec government to give more than $13-million to nearly 45,000 women who had to pay for abortions is a victory for women, a Quebec doctor said Friday... Read more
GLOBAL NEWS/ETHIOPIA
Moving forward: Ethiopia develops new safe abortion guidelines.
Source: Ipas Press Room August 1, 2006. (Slightly modified by Upeka de Silva.) www.ipas.org
Commemorating World Population day on July 10, the Ethiopian Ministry of Health released guidelines for safe abortion services, making major progress toward implementing the May 2005 revisions of the country’s abortion law... Read more
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