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Extend the 67 Abortion Act - don't let local political parties off the hook

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | feature author Friday October 24, 2008 20:59author by Jason Brannigan - Organise!author email organiseireland at yahoo dot ie Report this post to the editors

Organise! Pickets Local Political Parties

Organise! at the UUP Office

The Alliance for Choice in Northern Ireland is heading up a campaign for the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland. On Wednesday 22nd there will be a vote on an amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill in Westminster to extend the Act to NI - 41 years after its introduction in the rest of the UK.

Organise!, political activists, and pro-choice campaigners will be staging a series of protests in the next week in the run up to the Westminster vote on the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act to NI. Organise! are currently carrying out pickets of the four main political parties in the north.

The Alliance for Choice in Northern Ireland is heading up a campaign for the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland. On Wednesday 22nd there will be a vote on an amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill in Westminster to extend the Act to NI - 41 years after its introduction in the rest of the UK.

Organise!, political activists, and pro-choice campaigners will be staging a series of protests in the next week in the run up to the Westminster vote on the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act to NI.

This Saturday at 2pm at Belfast City Hall the campaign is organising a symbolic '40 women' protest. 40 women will wear "it could be me t-shirts", representing the 40 women who leave Northern Ireland each week to have an abortion. Organise! and other anarchists have pledged their support for the demonstration and a call has been made for as many people as possible to attend the protest.

Additionally, Organise! are also targeting local political parties in the run up to the vote on the 22nd. In a press statement, Organise! said:

"The four main political parties at the Stormont Assembly have made a virtue of how they are united in opposition to a woman's right to choose. Sinn Fein, the SDLP, the DUP and the Ulster Unionist Party have all adopted an anti-woman, anti-choice position that increases hardship and puts the lives of women, particularly working class women, at risk ... While the campaign is urging everyone to contact MPs at Westminster to ask them to support this amendment we cannot let local political parties off the hook."

Organise! have already picketed the headquarters of the Ulster Unionist Party on the Ravenhill Road in East Belfast. In addition we have organised pickets as follows:

SDLP, 121 Ormeau Road, Belfast at 1pm on Monday 20th of October;
DUP, 91 Dunvale Avenue, Belfast at 1pm on Tuesday 21st of October;
and the Sinn Fein Press Office, 53 Falls Road at 1.00pm on Wednesday 22nd of October.

For more information email: [email protected]

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   freezing in hell     flying pig    Sat Oct 18, 2008 16:19 
   laws     confused    Sat Oct 18, 2008 17:07 
   flying pigs, political parties and catholic moral majorities     Jason Brannigan    Sun Oct 19, 2008 14:59 
   democracy/truth     Inez    Sun Oct 19, 2008 17:02 
   One 'Truth' in the previous comment is blatantly untrue     Jason Brannigan    Sun Oct 19, 2008 22:50 
   Truth     Eleanor    Sun Oct 19, 2008 23:51 
   misrepresentation?     Jason Brannigan    Mon Oct 20, 2008 17:35 
   Jason is right     GH    Tue Oct 21, 2008 18:27 
   choice/life     RogerC    Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:44 
 10   logic     Mangan    Wed Oct 22, 2008 15:46 
 11   a few points....     Catlady    Sat Oct 25, 2008 23:58 
 12   clarification     RogerC    Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:19 
 13   Censorship on Indymedia?     picador    Mon Oct 27, 2008 18:14 
 14   democracy     European socialist    Mon Oct 27, 2008 22:16 
 15   reply to roger/mangan     Lorna    Mon Oct 27, 2008 23:14 
 16   can't think of a title....     Catlady    Tue Oct 28, 2008 02:27 
 17   reply to catlady     European socialist    Tue Oct 28, 2008 14:38 
 18   social responsibility     Janet    Tue Oct 28, 2008 22:16 
 19   and this is related because     matt    Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:38 
 20   Other pickets     Séamus    Sat Nov 01, 2008 17:16 
 21   reply to matt     socially responsible    Mon Nov 03, 2008 01:11 
 22   so what?     related because    Mon Nov 03, 2008 01:21 
 23   worrisome nevertheless     Stan    Mon Nov 03, 2008 10:29 
 24   Reply to European Socialist     Catlady    Tue Nov 04, 2008 02:06 
 25   Socially Irresponsible     AM    Tue Nov 04, 2008 06:28 
 26   reply re:stats     Ella    Tue Nov 04, 2008 21:05 
 27   reply to catlady     Jerry    Tue Nov 04, 2008 21:16 
 28   There is no evidence of 'post-abortion syndrome'     GH    Wed Nov 05, 2008 18:11 
 29   mental health     Jennifer    Wed Nov 05, 2008 20:24 


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