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Irish Hospital Prepared to Forcibly Perform a C-Section on Non-Consenting Woman
Police launch probe after 100 women admit taking or buying abortion pills
Police launch probe after 100 women admit taking or buying abortion pills.
The PSNI said it is examining the open letter, signed by more than 100 people, which was published by Alliance for Choice.
The signatories provided their name and location for the document – which lists people who have taken the abortion pill or helped women here to procure it.
The 1861 Offences against the Person Act, which carries a life sentence, makes it illegal to procure drugs to cause an abortion.
Abortion is currently illegal in Northern Ireland unless a woman’s life is at risk or there is a risk of permanent and serious damage to her health.
A PSNI spokeswoman on Sunday confirmed that police are “assessing” the contents of the letter.
HSE unoffical DNA record to be destroyed.
So the HSE kept all the new born screening cards also know as the heel prick test, the one which has information such as date of brith, name and a spot of blood from every child born in Irish hospitals from 1984. And opps they shouldn’t have.
They got given out to by the data protection commission and are looking at only keeping them now for 10 years and destroying the old ones. You can how ever request your own one or that of your children by filling in a forum but it must be done by the 31st of March.
The forum can be dl from here http://newbornscreening.ie/ or you can ring 1850 24 1850 to request they be posted to you.
The Brave 100 and counting…
Sunday the 10th of March the news broke that 100 people had put their names to a letter stating they had broken the law in Northen Ireland, either by getting and taking abortion pills or assisting in a woman getting them.
100 Northern Irish women admit the use of abortion drugs in open letter: http://t.co/VP1ZdilGLq
— AllianceforChoice (@Alliance4Choice) March 10, 2013
So far the Crown prosecution has seemed reluctant to pursue such cases and to not bring the law under public scrutiny but with the moves made last week to make it illegal for the Marie Stopes clinic or indeed any private clinic to offer abortions in the 6 counties, this wonderful action has happened.
This tactic of people coming forward has happened before in other countries were it was illegal to have an abortion. It happened first in France Le Nouvel Observateur on April 5, 1971 published the Manifesto of the 343 (as 343 women signed it), which was written by Simone de Beauvoir and stated.
One million women in France have an abortion every year.
Condemned to secrecy, they have them in dangerous conditions when this procedure, performed under medical supervision, is one of the simplest.
These women are veiled in silence.
I declare that I am one of them. I have had an abortion.
Just as we demand free access to birth control, we demand the freedom to have an abortion.
Two months later Stern Magazine which was based in Hamburg in what was then in West Germany ran it’s cover with images of women and the title on the front page was “Wir haben abgetrieben” “We have aborted” it had the stories of 374 women.
A year later in 1972 the first issue of Ms. magazine carried an “We Have Had Abortions,” statement signed by 50 women, who asked for people to join them in
a “campaign for honesty and freedom”.
And finally 40 years later we have a statement from women who live on the Island of Ireland stating they have broke the law and had an abortion and those who have helped them do it.
Names are still being added
Names still being added to open letter. If you live in NI and want to sign please get in touch.
— AllianceforChoice (@Alliance4Choice) March 11, 2013
We salute these brave men and women who may face legal sanctions, but who have decided to come forward and end their silence to help break the taboo and normalise abortion in the North of Ireland and to call for services needed by women.
I’m not a girl, I am woman hear me roar!
Today is internationals women’s day and I’d like the address the issue of how we have abandoned the term woman.
I am not a girl, a girl is an immature woman.
I haven’t been a girl for years and I honestly don’t think that the term applies any more once you hit 20. Honestly you are an adult once you hit 18 and can vote but I would say fair enough if you are 20/21 and want to use the term girl, but after that 20 to about 25 I would say you are a woman, a young woman but a woman.
When did woman become a derogatory term? Honestly one of my issues with the show Girls is, they are not girls, they are women, trying to figure out themselves and their lives. They are not children they are women.
When we reject the term women we are buying into the bullshit that women are not fun, desirable, valued, powerful. Just because we go from being girls to being women that does not mean we suddenly become harridans. The idea that women have more responsibilities and are restricted and tied down has many young women rejecting the term over the years. Honestly, fuck that time to take it back.
This was written the year I was born.
(Helen Reddy and Ray Burton)
I am woman, hear me roar
In numbers too big to ignore
And I know too much to go back an’ pretend
‘Cause I’ve heard it all before
And I’ve been down there on the floor
No one’s ever gonna keep me down againOh yes, I am wise
But it’s wisdom born of pain
Yes, I’ve paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to
I can do anything
I am strong (strong)
I am invincible (invincible)
I am womanYou can bend but never break me
‘Cause it only serves to make me
More determined to achieve my final goal
And I come back even stronger
Not a novice any longer
‘Cause you’ve deepened the conviction in my soulOh, yes, I am wise
But it’s wisdom born of pain
Yes, I’ve paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to
I can face anything
I am strong (strong)
I am invincible (invincible)
I am womanI am woman watch me grow
See me standing toe to toe
As I spread my lovin’ arms across the land
But I’m still an embryo
With a long, long way to go
Until I make my brother understandOh, yes, I am wise
But it’s wisdom born of pain
Yes, I’ve paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to
I can face anything
I am strong (strong)
I am invincible (invincible)
I am womanOh, I am woman
I am invincible
I am strongI am woman
I am invincible
I am strong
I am woman