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We’re not a campaigning organisation, but…
ASN is an abortion fund and not a campaigning organisation. While we work with campaigning organisations (hi, y’all, we LOVE YOU!) our role is to help the people who need abortions RIGHT NOW while other groups campaign for law reform that will help people get abortions in the future. Of course, as evidenced by the…
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Buzzfeed: This Woman’s Painful Story Of Travelling To England For An Abortion Shows The Reality Of Northern Ireland’s Strict Laws
“We shouldn’t have to do admin. We shouldn’t have to travel or book flights or look for hotels. We had a month having to figure out what the hell to do in terms of just the logistics of it all, knowing what we knew, but not being able to process that because you have to…
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Buzzfeed: Emma Watson Has Written A Moving Letter To A Woman Who Died As A Result Of Ireland’s Strict Abortion Law
“You didn’t want to become the face of a movement; you wanted a procedure that would have saved your life,” Watson wrote.
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Hot Press: Fashion Special: The Rising Stars In Irish Fashion
We give £5 from every t-shirt or sweater sold from the Resistance Mama range to them, and will continue to do until they no longer need to exist.” Stacey’s feminist philosophy also extends to how her products are made. “We use all organic cotton and ethically supplied garments for this reason too,” she reveals. “It…
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The Irish News: Landmark legal challenge by woman who bought abortion pills for her teenage daughter begins
“This is a mother who has been treated like a common criminal for helping her daughter source medication that is prescribed free on the NHS in every other part of the UK.”
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Stylist: Meet the activist who’s helped thousands of Irish women access safe abortions
“We exist because ‘I can’t afford an abortion’ shouldn’t be the only reason somebody becomes a parent,” Clarke says. “We do this because we know that criminalising abortion doesn’t stop it – it just means that only women with money have options.”
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Joe.ie: Video
“Every time we think we’ve heard the worst story we’ve ever heard, we hear a worse one.”
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Irish Times:
“Before the glory days we should remember it was the Wellwoman Centre, the Irish Family Planning Association, the Abortion Support Network in the UK who took in our women and girls and paid their fares.”
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Irish Times: London Irish abortion activists seek change in NI ban after Yes result
The London-Irish Abortion Rights Campaign, which has some 2,000 members, said the decisive Yes vote meant there is a strong mandate to continue campaigning for change north of the Border



