North West Abortion Rights Campaign

Regional hub for Abortion Rights Campaigners across the North West of Ireland
#FreeSafeLegalLocal reproductive healthcare for all

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Thanks to all who have read, liked and shared our posts over the past couple of years. This account will be retiring at the end of the day but, if you'd like to keep up to date with abortion-related news, you can follow our sister account at @LeitrimARC.

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As the feminist Ellen Willis once put it, the central question in the abortion debate is not whether a foetus is a person, but whether a woman is.
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Access to abortion has been found to increase women’s educational attainment, labour force participation, entrance into professional occupations and earnings, and to decrease financial stress and poverty for women and their families.
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Campaigners warn that poor, young and people of color are far more likely to turn to illegal methods, creating another layer of racism and classism in the criminal justice system, alongside the same preventable public health disaster seen before Roe.
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It should not take a high-profile death to expose just how much is at risk when medicine is hamstrung by politics, religion or culture. #NeverAgain
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The Irish abortion strategy combined human rights litigation, political activism and mass protests; a trinity of strategies that deserves U.S. attention.
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Prohibiting abortion is not what most people want — especially not women — and yet the war against it continues.
https://t.co/lTg1YqvRMZ

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In the end, this is how reproductive freedom must be saved — through a concerted political campaign that harnesses public support with a message of openness and pride, and a focus on women’s equality and bodily autonomy.
https://t.co/4WITB7BhVH

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While parents wait for the snail-paced divestment programme the very least the State could do is ensure that relationships and sexuality education is based on facts and science. This must be irrespective of postcode or school ethos. #SeparateChurchAndState
https://t.co/HNAWUThPNv

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Really interesting longread, with many parallels in Ireland:
While obstacles remain in the path of safe abortion, advocates in Thailand are hopeful the future will be brighter for those who seek it.
https://t.co/GRjDyaEvPG

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Many physicians say they cannot intervene in complex pregnancies that may not pose an immediate threat to the patient but can rapidly spin out of control.
Sounds familiar? #NeverAgain
https://t.co/e9oql1EHQQ

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The marchers demanded a stop to “the male chauvinist, classist and racist rage” that “afflicts women, adolescents, girls, trans women, Dominicans, Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian origin.” #internationaldayofviolenceagainstwomen
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According to a United Nations study, not a single Arab country offers comprehensive sex education in schools.
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"Doctors should be allowed to provide public information about abortions without fear of prosecution"
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There are no long-term health risks from abortion. It is not associated with a future risk of infertility or ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, birth defects or preterm delivery. There also are no increased risks of mental health problems.
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It is not pluralism or diversity to impose the ethos of the Roman Catholic Church on sex education in 90% of our schools, despite the nonsense of Peadar Tóibín. It is indoctrination and it harms our children. #SeparateChurchAndState
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Superbly told recreation of what Annie Ernaux, now 81, went through when, as a college student in early 1960s France, she learned that she was pregnant. Happening (L'événement) is on French screens this week. Review at 4.57. https://t.co/konhnhb7xD

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A woman who undergoes an abortion faces a penalty of 16 to 54 months in prison. Colombia is a country where nearly 70 women die each year from complications of unsafe abortion. #abortolibreeseguro
https://t.co/d3kTieQCaS

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"It's so difficult and really challenging, especially for teachers who don't have these conversations in their own day to day lives,
"There needs to be a real focus on training for teachers so that they can feel confident when teaching these topics."
https://t.co/dwukRBtG8A

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Doctors in Poland report living in constant fear of a life-saving abortion being challenged once the risk has been averted. #AniJednejWiecej
https://t.co/iRwqNHvV51