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May 2018
Women as property - bizarre tweet from No campaign leaders says more than intended
Date: Mon, 2018-05-21 16:22
This seemingly bizarre tweet from a No campaign leader in their attempt to prevent the repeal of the anti-women 8th amendment gives a few things away about their ideological mind set.
It read "Referendum will repeal our property rights. Ignore the fact the the Goverenment then plans to pass a law nationalising half the housing stock. #8thref #refcom @morningireland"
New citizens denied vote in the Repeal Referendum
Date: Wed, 2018-05-23 12:10
While there is a lot of focus on Irish citizens returning home to vote Yes in the Repeal referendum what has received less attention are the huge numbers of non-citizens resident in Ireland who have no vote. They are also trapped under the 8th amendment. Some 3,000 have recently received Irish Citizenship but shockingly it turns out they have not been added to the electoral register even though arrangements are made for young people turning 18 just before May 25th.
No campaign plans to try and suppress Yes vote on Repeal day - bring ID to thwart them
Date: Wed, 2018-05-23 12:28
Last night we received information (screen shot above) that the No campaign intend to engage in Trump style voter suppression methods by trying to get their people appointed as personation officers at polling stations. They intend to target stations likely to have a high Yes voter the hope that increasing the number of challenges will result in enough Yes voters being unable vote to make a difference if, as is still possible, the result is close. Be sure to bring ID when you go to vote on Friday, the polling card is NOT in itself ID.
Savita was one of us - we owe her our Yes to Repeal this Friday
Date: Wed, 2018-05-23 14:17
At the start of the referendum campaign in March, I took this photograph showing the poster image of Savita, who died because of the 8th amendment, and in the background a huge billboard with a CGI / cartoon of what is meant to be an 11 week old foetus. Both have the common slogan ‘one of us’ - the photograph invites us to consider if the life of this 31-year-old woman of colour, who was denied a life-saving abortion, really has the same value as an anonymous and unknown 11-week-old foetus.
This is the question we will be voting on this Friday, indeed beyond that we are voting on whether a doctor who gives a life-saving abortion in a Savita-like case should have the threat of a 14-year jail sentence hanging over them - as the 2013 law lays down - whether any of the hundreds of pregnant people taking abortion pills at home in Ireland should be doing so under the risk of that 14-year sentence. That is the law as it stands - to change it, the 8th must be repealed.
France - solidarity protest with Repeal referendum
Date: Thu, 2018-05-24 15:29
24th May, the eve of the Repeal the 8th referendum in Ireland there was a demonstration of solidarity with Repeal outside the Irish Embassy in Paris.
The demo is organised by international collective;
Abortion: Let Women Decide!
8 reasons we are voting Yes to Repeal the hated 8th
Date: Thu, 2018-05-24 15:30
On May 25th we finally get to vote to Repeal the hated 8th amendment. Here we present the 8 reasons we are voting Yes to Repeal along with many of the articles we have published on the issue in recent months.