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1966年，罗马尼亚共产党总书记齐奥塞斯库颁布政策，全面禁止堕胎及节育。该政策的宗旨是，胎儿属于国家，堕胎和节育是对国家的背叛。
为了落实政策，罗马尼亚育龄妇女每月接受检查，一经查出使用了避孕措施则进行严厉处罚，怀孕如果胆敢终止妊娠，其本人及为其提供医疗服务的医生和医疗机构都将入狱。
为了落实政策，罗马尼亚育龄妇女每月接受检查，一经查出使用了避孕措施则进行严厉处罚，怀孕如果胆敢终止妊娠，其本人及为其提供医疗服务的医生和医疗机构都将入狱。
1973年，美国最高法院宣判罗伊诉韦德案，裁决女性拥有堕胎自主权利。
2019年美国阿拉巴马州通过全面禁止堕胎法案。
同年，另有27个州拟颁布禁止堕胎法案。
2021年德克萨斯州禁止堕胎法案通过，并授权给公民执法。
2022年，美国最高法院推翻1973年罗伊诉韦德一案的裁决判例，女性失去身体自主权。
2019年美国阿拉巴马州通过全面禁止堕胎法案。
同年，另有27个州拟颁布禁止堕胎法案。
2021年德克萨斯州禁止堕胎法案通过，并授权给公民执法。
2022年，美国最高法院推翻1973年罗伊诉韦德一案的裁决判例，女性失去身体自主权。
1861年开始，堕胎在爱尔兰是刑事犯罪。
1973年美国的罗伊诉韦德案宣判后，西方保守派阵营震动，1981年爱尔兰保守派发起"Pro-Life"运动， 推动反堕胎宪法修正案。运动获得了天主教会和信徒的全力支持，但遭到其他所有人的反对。
1983年全民公投，反堕胎宪法修正案获得67%票数，第八修正案通过。
1973年美国的罗伊诉韦德案宣判后，西方保守派阵营震动，1981年爱尔兰保守派发起"Pro-Life"运动， 推动反堕胎宪法修正案。运动获得了天主教会和信徒的全力支持，但遭到其他所有人的反对。
1983年全民公投，反堕胎宪法修正案获得67%票数，第八修正案通过。
🧵A thread about adoption abortion and maternity care and the sisters of charity 🧵
1/ The adoption board was formed after adoption became legal in 1953 Tom Woulfe was the first registrar of the new Adoption Board in 1953 an appointee of McQuaid.
1/ The adoption board was formed after adoption became legal in 1953 Tom Woulfe was the first registrar of the new Adoption Board in 1953 an appointee of McQuaid.
2/Archbishop McQuaid scrutinised every line of the 1952 adoption act a result of which meant a restriction on children of mixed religious denomination from being adopted and restrictions where a mother recently changed her religion.
3/Adopted mothers had to give up work and had to prove they were not using contraceptives and that they were unable to have children themselves
1. I am a clinician working in @_TheNMH, providing the full spectrum of #abortion care to women & girls & transgender people, I provide high risk maternity care with clinicians with St Vincents Hospital. I campaigned to #repealthe8th. I do not support the #makeNMHOurs campaign
@_TheNMH 2. We are ALREADY providing abortion care, as a part of our overall care to people within @_TheNMH & St Vincents. Listen to our fantastic colleague Dr Zara Fonseca Kelly talk about this today @rte - I stand with her & @donalb5 saying I also provide
rte.ie/radio/radiopla…
rte.ie/radio/radiopla…
3. Making a hospital public - that is, a HSE hospital rather than a voluntary hospital - does not guarantee abortion care. ALL the hospitals within Ireland not providing abortion care are HSE hospitals. All three voluntary maternity hospitals are providing the full spectrum
Heres Hermann Kelly @hermannkelly on SF's 'immigration policy'
"The party of touts and louts in Sinn Fein, you gotta laugh, they present themselves as a nationalist party. Their immigration policy is basically Brits out, Chinese in"
This guy is a racist organiser full stop.
"The party of touts and louts in Sinn Fein, you gotta laugh, they present themselves as a nationalist party. Their immigration policy is basically Brits out, Chinese in"
This guy is a racist organiser full stop.
Hermann Kelly @hermannkelly moves on to the antisemitic conspiracy theory 'cultural marxism'
Says SF's 'cultural marxism' is stolen from the Workers Party andhe's neither were really republican.
Without a hint of irony hes saying all this to an ex squaddie.
Racism writ large
Says SF's 'cultural marxism' is stolen from the Workers Party andhe's neither were really republican.
Without a hint of irony hes saying all this to an ex squaddie.
Racism writ large
Hermann Kelly @hermannkelly then making a direct connection between abortion and immigration. A very public stance in the American far-right, and Christian fundamentalism generally.
Both underpinned by a founding concept of white supremacy and fear of 'white genocide'
Both underpinned by a founding concept of white supremacy and fear of 'white genocide'
Two years ago today, Ireland's anti Catholic media and liberal elite created one of their most bizarre conspiracy theories yet
This one involved homeless people being moved out of Dublin to accommodate Pope Francis's visit
This one involved homeless people being moved out of Dublin to accommodate Pope Francis's visit
The conspiracy claimed that homeless people would be moved from Dublin out of hotels to make way for big crowds attending the World Meeting of Families
It was never true, but the media decided to run with it anyways to smear Catholics and to try to upstage the Pope's visit
It was never true, but the media decided to run with it anyways to smear Catholics and to try to upstage the Pope's visit
On a deranged high after legalising murdering babies 3 months earlier, Ireland's liberals even laughably even made petitions to Pope Francis
This was despite THEIR pro abortion leaders in Fine Gael having made 12,000 people homeless over the previous number of years
This was despite THEIR pro abortion leaders in Fine Gael having made 12,000 people homeless over the previous number of years
It's high time we did a thread introducing people to the deep ideological, financial, and practical links between TERFs and the American far right.
Essentially there is a wide array of evidence showing that anti trans rhetoric is being used to further the far right cause
Essentially there is a wide array of evidence showing that anti trans rhetoric is being used to further the far right cause
Here's a classic case study: the bathroom access debate in the USA.
It's a known tactic of segregationists: deny the target group access to bathrooms and you deny them access to public life. That's why they used it against black people in the 60s
pinknews.co.uk/2017/02/08/rad…
It's a known tactic of segregationists: deny the target group access to bathrooms and you deny them access to public life. That's why they used it against black people in the 60s
pinknews.co.uk/2017/02/08/rad…
The same thing also turns up in the UK, in relation to a pond in hampstead heath: a group of segregationists decided to target women who wanted to use the womens-only swimming pond. It then became a major news item.
Most of the articles in major publications were not pro trans
Most of the articles in major publications were not pro trans
This International Working Women’s Day, reject corporate, “lean-in” feminism that seeks to build power through social inequality, exclusion, and classist hierarchies designed to divide us. International Women's Day has its roots in American socialism.
The 1915 International Congress of Women
Organized by the U.S. Socialist Party, it brought together an audience of 1,500 women who demanded economic and political equality, on a day officially dedicated to “the female workers’ causes.”
THREAD: It's 18 years ago today that @BrennanGaye and I lost our son Joshua to a fatal foetal anomaly. Many of you know our story.
Every year since then we have been in a lot of emotional pain leading up to this date.
But not this year!
1/..
Every year since then we have been in a lot of emotional pain leading up to this date.
But not this year!
1/..
This year we have been able to remember Joshua and our loss with sadness. Sadness for the loss of what could have been but for cruelty of nature.
This year we have not however felt again the sense of abandonment and judgement we felt in 2001
2/..
This year we have not however felt again the sense of abandonment and judgement we felt in 2001
2/..
This year we have not felt the anxious knot of needing to do something to prevent what happened to us happening to others, the need to proclaim "We did nothing wrong". We do not feel the need to be understood.
Why?
Because we are understood. Because we have been supported.
3/..
Why?
Because we are understood. Because we have been supported.
3/..
For the last couple of years, I have compiled a year-end thread of little things during the year that made me smile or served as a nice antidote to the hellscape we currently find ourselves in. Guess what? It’s that time of year again. Buckle up!
1. A child is asked to name the President of Ireland. They write, ‘Miggeldy Higens’. The President is henceforth referred to as Miggeldy by the people of Ireland. 💯
2. Blackpool Police ask the public for help in identifying a man suspected of stealing beers from a restaurant. The suspect happens to be the spitting image of David Schwimmer. Hilarity ensues.
If you all would allow me, I’d like to talk a bit about the recent referendum we had back in Ireland. On May 25th we removed the constitutional ban that denied abortion to all women except in the case of certain death. #Repealed
I understand that this might be a difficult topic for a lot of people. And that’s ok. But what my country went through was extremely difficult and while it was an extremely tough task, I am so proud of the outcome and of what we managed to do with dignity and respect
A bit of a back story. Many of you may recall in 2015, Ireland voted to legalise gay marriage. I was living in Finland at the time and I flew #hometovote for that. I would never have missed that vote.
Today marks nine months since @EchoChambersPod was born. Here are some of the key achievements
#HousingEmergency
An unparalleled field of experts, providers, activists and professionals who unanimously agree that @campaignforleo's government has failed, and is continuing to >
#HousingEmergency
An unparalleled field of experts, providers, activists and professionals who unanimously agree that @campaignforleo's government has failed, and is continuing to >
@campaignforleo fail not just 10,000 homeless people, but also the vast majority of citizens of this country. Thanks to
@ClareICHH, @Orla_Hegarty, @MaoiliosaRey, @MaryMcAuliffe4, @AnthonyICHH, @lorcansirr, @RoryHearne, @EricaHome1
In Politics we had in depth conversations with
@davidcullinane
@ClareICHH, @Orla_Hegarty, @MaoiliosaRey, @MaryMcAuliffe4, @AnthonyICHH, @lorcansirr, @RoryHearne, @EricaHome1
In Politics we had in depth conversations with
@davidcullinane
@campaignforleo @ClareICHH @Orla_Hegarty @MaoiliosaRey @MaryMcAuliffe4 @AnthonyICHH @lorcansirr @RoryHearne @EricaHome1 @davidcullinane @CarlyBee25 @taradeacy @lukeming @pbp_gillian @CathMurphyTD @paulmurphy_TD @brianhayesMEP @TheKavOfficial @JohnLyonsPBPA @1GaryGannon @EOBroin @PaidiCole @amomcnally @JoanCollinsTD
We learned a lot from our political guests, particularly on the personal side, we hope you did >
We learned a lot from our political guests, particularly on the personal side, we hope you did >
Thread on #8thref #repealthe8th #irelandreferendum results.
1) Bottom line: On 25th May 2018, this little guy (12 week scan) & future generations of unborn boys & girls had their right to life in the womb removed from our constitution to introduce abortion
1) Bottom line: On 25th May 2018, this little guy (12 week scan) & future generations of unborn boys & girls had their right to life in the womb removed from our constitution to introduce abortion
2) We would not have had the ref. yesterday had #SavitaHalappanavar not died of sepsis & medical negligence while suffering a miscarriage in October 2012 & had her death falsely blamed on the 8th Amendment, initially by @GalwayProChoice in cahoots with @KittyHollandIT @IrishTimes
What is #maleprivilege? It is freedom, resources, rights, and respect granted instantly to any male person upon (or even before) birth, simply for being male. Having an advantage over another group of humans doesn’t just stop at laws.
When men don’t feel constantly threatened with violence and harassment for just existing. When medical conditions affecting males are given more funding and are more rigorously researched. When men get more pay and are promoted faster due to being seen as more competent in jobs.
How gender identity politics is endangering #WomensRights masquerading under the guise of “progressivism”- or in other words, as I said to this @notokyriarchy fatherfucker, an #MRA’s dream come true
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I shouldn’t have to explain the realities of sex-based oppression in 2018! #Female is a biological sex. #Gender is the roles and norms that are imposed on those with female bodies to subjugate them to males for free sexual, domestic, and reproductive labor.
No matter how many genders a given culture had or recognized, somehow, the half of the group with a cock and balls (males) knew which other half of the group to forcibly impregnate (“#NonMen”, according to some). 🤔🤔🤔
What swung the vote to yes (#repealthe8th) was the personal stories of women who had to go abroad, who were forced to carry to term. Meanwhile the UK establishment is bent on going ahead with Brexit in spite of all the heart-rending stories of @The3Million and @BritishInEurope 1/
Never during the Stronger In campaign were we actually talked about as people - with homes, families, friends, who contribute. Axel Scheffler said in his moving speech that the Leave vote hurts and makes him angry every day, it felt like a bitter rejection 2/
The way to dehumanize people is two ways.
1. Numbers game: talk about people in "liquid metaphors" (floods of people, streams of migrants)
2. Linking EU citizens and crime: talk about "EU killers we failed to deport" (@DailyMailUK) 3/
1. Numbers game: talk about people in "liquid metaphors" (floods of people, streams of migrants)
2. Linking EU citizens and crime: talk about "EU killers we failed to deport" (@DailyMailUK) 3/
2) was on the FB group Abroad for Yes which essentially is Irish (and some non Irish) people abroad who don;t have a vote sending funds to those who have to enable them to get home to #repealthe8th
3) It's a wonderful place. People y/day buying last minute flights home for hundreds and being fully funded in less than 30 mins. People chipping in what the can, we nearly broke paypal
We really need to talk more about #abortion as an option for women.
It's hard to say this and hard to hear it for many, but just because you discover you are pregnant doesn't mean you must carry that pregnancy to term. Your decision will last the rest of your life--and the rest of the life of any child you decide to carry to term.
#abortion
#abortion
And no, I am not advocating #abortion.
I'm advocating thinking about parenthood & all it entails.
Because once you have a child, you can't just walk away from that life.
And women/girls are talked into maintaining pregnancies every day.
More discussion would change that.
I'm advocating thinking about parenthood & all it entails.
Because once you have a child, you can't just walk away from that life.
And women/girls are talked into maintaining pregnancies every day.
More discussion would change that.
Here’s a test for the antichoice campaigners that come knocking on your door. Ask em if they believe abortion is murder. They’ll mainly say yes. #together4yes #8thref #repealthe8th ➡️
Now ask if they believe a 14 years sentence is enough for a girl taking an abortion pill, or if the full mandatory life sentence for murder should be the maximum term. Now watch them scramble. ➡️
So far I’ve found it goes one of these ways: a) the old reliable side step that they also use for the rape question. ➡️
2. In the midst of the #cervicalcheckscandal other unsavoury details about the Govt. have emerged. These facts help to explain what exactly Tony O'Brien (Director General of the HSE) was doing as a non-executive Director of the Board of Evofem Devices & why Min. Harris approved.
3.This arrangement occurred in the middle of a flu season epidemic in Jan 2018. A peak number of people of 714 were left on trolleys in one day. Mr Varadker is quoted as having supported this unusual decision.
Ok I’m going to share a story with you regarding a crisis pregnancy I had many years ago, I have previously shared this story on my own account but think it might be good to revisit it. I was 15 when I became pregnant, 15 when I gave birth too. My eldest is now 27 #togetherforyes
I concealed my pregnancy for 5.5 months, they were very frightening times indeed. I was in school in 5th year in an all girls school. I went back to school three weeks after delivering my baby. This photo is of my and my lovely little one when she was 4 weeks old #togetherforyes
A quick thread on the use of mental health by antichoicers, and why it’s both harmful and wrong. Mental health is just as important as physical health. Sadly this is something that we’re ignored in this country for too long, and it’s still under resourced. #8thref #together4yes
Antis are claiming that abortion will basically be widespread and a free for all if it’s allowed on mental health grounds. This is insulting not only to women who need abortions, but also further stigmatizes mental health. ➡️
I see a “fact” being thrown around by antis is that “97% of all UK abortions are on mental health grounds”. Yes, 97% of UK abortions are on health grounds. Yes, the majority of these are mental rather than physical health. But it’s misleading to state that this will happen here.
A brief thread on the Facebook ad and page problem (h/t to @TheLiberal_x and @TransparentRef) 1/ The day before Facebook introduced the new view ads feature in Ireland, this domain was registered:
who is behind undecided8 ? Whois is private. Hosted on DigitalOcean in New Jersey. Don't know who registered it.
Website SSL cert registered the same day. Website has no details about who is behind the website, no about section, no transparency.
(Thread) Last week I spoke at a @DroghedaT4Y public meeting about the 8th amendment's impact on a pregnant woman's right to consent to medical treatment. I read out the orders the HSE asked the High Court to make against Mother B.
I was asked by @Elainemathews09 if they could be read anywhere. So I'm sharing the most noteworthy now.
The first was an order to have the proceedings heard in camera (so they could not be reported). We consented to this for Mother B's privacy. But after we won the case, the HSE fought (unsuccessfully) our application to have this order lifted.
A thread on the long running rebellion that eventually forced the government to call a referendum to #repealthe8th - photo is us on the February 1992 X-case march - the point at which the tide turned & lead to the #Together4Yes to get rid of #8thref this May
Our involvement goes further back, WSM formed in 1984 but those members had fought introduction of the 8th as part of the Anti-Amendment Campaign. Felt AAC was too defensive through and there was a need to always include a 'womens right to choose' on every platform
In 1984 Eileen Flynn sacked from teaching job at New Ross convent school - Jesuit priest wrote “Ms Flynn’s pregnancy is significant only as being incontrovertible evidence that her relations with the man in whose house she resided were in fact immoral...
