Name/TitleFlyer: Abortion Rights Now
About this objectDouble-sided A4 black & white printed flyer headed 'Abortion Rights Now ~ No retreat from the Citizens' Assembly!', calling for the Oireachtas Committee to endorse the CA's recommendations and put them to a public vote. The other side is headed 'We Need Repeal & Abortion Rights!' and provides information about the Oireachtas Committee. It also promotes a ROSA activist workshop with Ruth Coppinger TD on Wednesday 4th October and calls for people to rally and march with ROSA at the March for Choice on Saturday 30th September 2017.
MakerROSA International Socialist Feminists
Date Made2017
Period2010s
Place MadeIreland
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 297 x W: 210 mm
Subject and Association KeywordsWomen's healthcare
Subject and Association Keywordsabortion rights - pro-choice
Subject and Association KeywordsRepeal the 8th Amendment
Subject and Association KeywordsWomen's Marches
Subject and Association KeywordsParty politics
Subject and Association DescriptionPart of a collection of Repeal the 8th Amendment (Ireland) campaign material (for and against) gifted from a donor in Dublin.
https://www.rosainternational.org:
From #MeToo, to Ni Una Menos, to the Google workers walkout, to the millions strong feminist strikes in the Spanish state, to protests that have banned “marry your rapist” laws in the Middle East, to the successful movement that made abortion free and legal in Ireland, a feminism of struggle on the streets & in our workplaces has powerfully emerged. Around the world, we are active in aiding to build this struggle, and the socialist-feminist wing of the movement. Fighting all forms of misogyny and sexism is linked to the fight for rent control and public housing; the fight for decent and equal pay; the climate justice movement; and fighting racism, transphobia & the far-right. Socialist feminism means breaking with establishment feminism that seeks to feminise the capitalist elite. Capitalism— a system that breeds extreme wealth inequality, based on exploitation, a system that perpetuates war — is a system incapable of ending oppression and violence. Help us build a socialist feminist movement, allied with the whole working class and oppressed of this world — to struggle against all exploitation and oppression & fight for a socialist future, free from violence, wealth inequality & environmental destruction! Named after revolutionary socialist, Rosa Luxemburg and civil rights campaigner, Rosa Parks , we are an international network of socialist feminists, established by women, LGBTQI, young & people of colour activists in the International Socialist Alternative (ISA). Get in touch with us today to join our network & struggle — “give us bread but give us roses!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Amendment_of_the_Constitution_of_Ireland:
The Eighth Amendment of the Constitution Act 1983 was an amendment to the Constitution of Ireland which inserted a subsection recognising the equal right to life of the pregnant woman and the unborn. Abortion had been subject to criminal penalty in Ireland since at least 1861; the amendment ensured that legislation or judicial interpretation would be restricted to allowing abortion in circumstances where the life of a pregnant woman was at risk. It was approved by referendum on 7 September 1983 and signed into law on 7 October 1983. In 2018, it was repealed by referendum.
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeFlyer
Object numberGWL-2022-152-33
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved