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Video: Maura Lane, Choice Ireland speaks on Abortion Rights

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Saturday December 12, 2009 23:06author by Paula Geraghtyauthor email mspgeraghty at yahoo dot ie

The Feminist Open Forum hosted a discussion on the current situation on abortion in Ireland in the Central Hotel Dublin.
Watch Choice Ireland's speaker give a background on Choice Ireland and the campaign for justice for pregnant Irish women who end up in the hands of Rogue Agencies.

This meeting was held in the Central Hotel, Dublin on 3rd December and coincides with three cases the A, B and C case being heard at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.The three women at the centre of the case argue that being forced to travel abroad for abortions endangered their “health and wellbeing”.

The Feminist Open Forum had invited Noirin Byrne, Sinead Kennedy and a representative from the Irish Family Planning Association and Choice Ireland to speak.

For more detailed information please visit Choice Ireland here:http://www.choiceireland.org/
and the Feminist Open Forum here:http://feministopenforum.com/

Related Link: http://www.vimeo.com/8141630


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Maura Lane from Choice Ireland

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author by Mickpublication date Sun Dec 13, 2009 17:53author address author phone

Shes a brilliant speaker, great points.

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