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A blog for pro-choice activists in Ireland. Choice Ireland meetings are held fortnightly on Thursday evening in Dublin city centre. Contact choiceireland@gmail.com for details on the next meeting, for information, or to be addded to our mailing list.
Pro-Choice Direct Action
Choice Ireland are a non-funded voluntary activist organisation. All we have, we raise through donations. Now you can donate on-line!
A list of websites of interest; they do not necessarily represent the views of Choice Ireland
- Safe and Legal in Ireland
- Alliance For Choice
- Alliance For Choice Northern Ireland
- Irish Family Planning Association
- Well Woman Centre
- bpas
- One Family - for members of one-parent families
- Childbirth Choices Ireland
- AIMS Ireland - Association for Improvement in Maternity Services
- Adoption Board
- Women's Aid
- Rape Crisis Centre
- National Women's Council
- UCD's Women's Education Research and Resource Centre (WERRC)
- Family Planning Association UK/NI
- Catholics for a Free Choice (U.S.)
- Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (U.S.)
- Women on Waves (Ned.)
Guiding Principles
- We Are a Feminist Organisation
- We See Reproductive Freedom as a Critical Element of Women’s Liberation
- We Recognise that Reproductive Freedom is Multi-Faceted and we Seek to Ensure a Woman’s Freedom to Pursue ALL Reproductive Choices
- We Will Promote Education to Empower Women to Take Charge of their Fertility
- The Right to Bodily Integrity
- No Affiliation to Parties Seeking Political Power
- Resistance to Hard-Line Anti-Choice Fanatics
- Solidarity with Like-Minded Pro-Choice Groups and Feminist Organisations
- International Solidarity
What Do We Want?
- Free Access to Accurate Information on All Crisis Pregnancy Options
- Legislation Regulating Information Provided by Crisis-Pregnancy Centres
- Immediate Legislation for the X and C Cases
- Proper Sex-Education
- Free Access to Multiple Forms of Contraception Including the Morning-After Pill
- Free and Legal Abortion on Demand
- High-Quality Post-Abortion Care
- End to Stigma Surrounding Abortion
- Practical Support for Women Seeking Abortion
- End to Stigma Surrounding Sexual Health and Contraceptive Needs
- Increased Support for Single and Low-Income Parents
- Increased Protection for Working Mothers
- Free Access to Quality Childcare
- End to Stigma Surrounding Single Parenthood
- Choice in the Method of Childbirth
- Creation of More Feminist Health Centres
- Full text can be found at http://choiceireland.blogspot.com/2007/05/founding-documents.html
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