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A LARGE CROWD has turned out on the streets of Dublin this afternoon for the March for Choice, which has been organised by pro-choice groups.
This is the first March for Choice since Ireland enacted abortion legislation in December.
President Michael D Higgins signed the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill into law, making abortion services legal in Ireland, on 20 December.
The Act allows for terminations of pregnancy up to 12 weeks. It also provides for terminations where there is a risk to the life or a serious risk to the health of the pregnant woman.
Women who have been given a diagnosis of fatal foetal abnormalities are now be able to legally avail of early termination of pregnancy in the hospital they are being treated in.
Today, ‘No one left behind’ is the Abortion Rights Campaign’s message.
Speaking ahead of the march, Mara Clake of the Abortion Support Network said that the group hears from people “in dire straits”.
“People who have just missed the 12 week cut off, including people who couldn’t get a scanning appointment in time, who were led astray by rogue agencies, or whose medication abortion failed,” she said.
Spokesperson for the Migrants and Asylum Seekers Association of Ireland, Bulelani Mfaco, also said some migrants and refugees who arrive in Ireland “may be too scared or disorientated to ask right away for an abortion”.
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The ARC said it was also marching today for the people of Northern Ireland.
If Stormont does not resume before 21 October, abortion may be decriminalised in the North.
“We are currently the only part of these islands without free, safe and legal abortion access but that is going to change very soon,” Danielle Roberts of Alliance for Choice Belfast said.
The March for Choice kicked off at the Garden of Remembrance today at 2pm and finished at Merrion Square.
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Put the heavy things at the back I said, not the front.
@Alan Byrne: locking pin for front gear appears to have been put in incorrectly.
Slow news day eh
They’ll probably hold an enquiry, but it seems plane enough.
Even planes are taking the knee now
Any word on the 4 dead pilots from British airways ??
@Larry Williams: one died from covid having spent the over 8 months in hospital. Looks like another was a biking accident. Not sure about the other 2, but it’d be great to stop making assumptions and wait until facts come out……
@Anthony Keenan: BA have also since confirmed that none of the 4 are linked and none relate to the vaccine
@Larry Williams: Two are certainly not linked. One was a bike accident, another was from complications having spent over a year in hospital in the States following an illness.
@Anthony Keenan: Take what they say with a pinch of salt. The BBC also tried to cover up Lisa Shaw’s death until her family went public. Now another reporter, Dom Nugent, is dead after “a short illness”. 11 weeks after the vaccine.
@Dave: yeah because dead after a short illness was never heard of before covid
@johnny onion eye: You keep pretending to yourself that all of these deaths of young, healthy people have absolutely nothing to do with these jabs if you want. They also said Lisa Shaw’s death was from a short illness also until her family spoke out.
@Larry Williams: bunch of w4nkers, I never mentioned anything about vaccine, but you jumped to conclusions, a$$ holes as always
@Larry Williams: Call us whatever names you like, but it’s looking like they were vaccine related. Someone mentioned the one that died from a bike accident as if it can’t be related. The autopsy shows he died from internal abdominal bleeding not consistent with the accident. Abdominal bleeding, like clots, is another much more common occurence than is being reported.
I see Ryan Air gave started to sneak those doggy Boeings across the Atlantic.
@Bala mc blaha: bow wow!
The McVities weren’t at rhe back.
Even planes are taking the knee now
@first_timer: this would be a second timer post
The all new 787 Max. Aka 737-8!
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