Bitch Magazine Spring 2013 – Abortion in Northern Ireland (PDF)

“First Irish Abortion clinic opens amid controversy, threats and confusion,”  On the Issues Magazine article quotes ASN

The fabulous Laurie Penny included ASN in her Vice Magazine piece “The Holy War on Irish Wombs”.

This month saw ASN feature on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Victoria Derbyshire Show (no longer available online) and BBC Panorama as part of a show called “The Great Abortion Divide”

“It’s not ‘ok’ that women living in Ireland have that decision taken away from them because they cannot afford to travel.  I believe we need to repeal the 8th amendment and respect women’s rights to choose.  Continuing to refer to women whose lives are at risk and all women who are are in crisis and…

“Wait, what?” I asked myself as I read about women forced to travel hundreds of miles after working extra shifts and selling things to raise funds for their abortions, having been pushed into later and more expensive gestations while they raised the money to pay the costs. Women were travelling. Hundreds of miles. To have…

“While we applaud any move that allows healthcare decisions to made by women and doctors as opposed to politicians, legislation on the X case will only impact a limited number of women. The vast majority of women who need abortions – women who’ve been raped; couples whose wanted pregnancies have catastrophic foetal anomalies; women and…