Name/TitleFlyer: No Backsliding on Abortion
About this objectDouble-sided A4 photocopy of a printed flyer headed 'Pro-choice & nothing less: No backsliding on abortion', calling for pro-choice campaigners to lobby the Oireachtas Committee to endorse the CA's recommendations and repeal the 8th Amendment. Produced by the Socialist Party, the other side is headed 'We need a Socialist challenge' and outlines the need for a mass movement to break with capitalism and institute democratic socialist change.
MakerSocialist Party
Date Madec.2016-17
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.socialistparty.ie:
The Socialist Party is a revolutionary organisation committed to ending the rule of capitalism — the source of the exploitation, oppression, war and environmental destruction in the world today. We are the Irish section of International Socialist Alternative (ISA), which is organised in over 30 countries. The Socialist Party has been at the forefront of all major movements in Irish society in recent years, from the household and water charges campaigns, in which we led the call for a mass boycott of the bills; to the struggle for repeal of the 8th amendment and abortion rights, in which we — with ROSA – Socialist Feminist Movement — organised mass awareness and distribution of abortion pills; forcing change from the right-wing establishment.
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 In 2018, it was repealed by referendum.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-2022-152-37
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved