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Entries Tagged as 'Abortion'

Leo Varadkar’s Fitness

May 4th, 2010 · 11 Comments · Abortion, Irish Politics

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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Increased support for Abortion in Ireland

March 8th, 2010 · 14 Comments · Abortion

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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What you didn’t see on RTE

February 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Abortion

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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Human Rights Watch launch report on Abortion and Ireland

January 28th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Abortion

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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Death Panel Politics, Disability and Lisbon

September 27th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Abortion, Disability, Equality, European Union, Irish Politics, Lisbon

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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