This week students in NUIG are being asked to vote on whether their union’s pro-choice position should be repealed. Sarah McCarthy writes on why students should reject this proposal. Last year, NUIG students voted overwhelmingly in favour of our union adopting a pro-choice position. Over 70% of votes cast agreed that our union should play an active…
Tag: Abortion
“Anti-woman, Anti-gay ‘pro-life’ bigots go away!”
Tomás Heneghan, a student from UL and member of Galway Pro-Choice shares his experience of the march on Youth Defence’s office…..originally posted here. I’m thinking I’ll take a break from writing about my holiday and instead write a tad about Dublin Pride weekend this year. Details are fairly boring so I’ll just skip to the good…
Women’s Officer Kicked Out for Voting Pro-Choice: USI Congress, QUB, & False Mandates
– Aisling Gallagher writes about her recent experience of having her delegate status revoked at USI Congress because she voted for two pro-choice motions. Aisling is Women’s Officer for NUS-USI and a student at Queen’s University Belfast. This post originally appeared on Aisling’s personal blog here. Last week I went to Ballinasloe for USI Congress 2013 as part…
Controversy at congress: NUS-USI Womens’ Officer removed from QUB delegation for voting against “mandate”
Róisín Jackman of Queen’s University Belfast writes about the controversy surrounding the removal of QUB Students’ Union delegate Aisling Gallagher, The NUS-USI Womens’ Officer, from her delegation for claims that she voted against her Union’s mandate on abortion services twice. Róisín raises questions about the legitimacy of these mandates and questions the democratic structures of the student movement….
The X Case: an Entire Generation of Failure
– Sarah McCarthy writes about that momentous moment in Ireland’s abortion history. Twenty-one years ago, this cartoon appeared on the front page of the Irish Times. It encapsulated perfectly the grotesque actions of the State at that time, and the striking image haunted a divided nation. It’s hard not to know the story of X…
The Government Must Really Hate Women…..
Sarah McCarthy writes on the recent proposal that five doctos would be required to diagnose if someone is suicidal to be allowed access to an abortion. Tensions in the Government coalition have delayed Health Minister’s Reilly submission to Cabinet on proposed changes to abortion legislation. The strain comes as some of the ultra-conservative anti-choice deputies in Fine…