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10th Anniversary of Ms X -- event

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Tuesday February 12, 2002 12:55author by choice

10th Anniversary of Ms X DEFEND WOMENS RIGHTS VOTE NO RALLY THIS SATURDAY DUBLIN 2PM PARNELL SQUARE

10th Anniversary of Ms X
DEFEND WOMENS RIGHTS
VOTE NO RALLY THIS SATURDAY
DUBLIN 2PM PARNELL SQUARE
speakers Michael D Higgins, Eithne Fitzgerald
Ivana Bacik Dr Tara Conlon Grainne Healy
Cathleen O'Neill bring friends children buggies banners
* music by Happy Samba Band * with Maria Kennedy Doyle
and Ruth McCabe and others
REAL LIFE SIZE MARY HARNEY DOLL!
WALKS TALKS AND TELLS LIES!
5 REASONS TO VOTE NO IN THE REFERENDUM * 5 REASONS WHY WOMEN WILL LOSE
1. It will deny women who are suicidal as a result of a crisis pregnancy the right to have an abortion in Ireland-the X case of 1992, which allowed a 14 year old suicidal rape victim to have an abortion, will be overturned
2. It will criminalise women who try to perform an abortion on themselves- and anyone who helps a woman to get an abortion in Ireland. They will face twelve years in prison.
3.It will restrict existing medical practice by preventing doctors performing life-saving terminations, which only will be allowed
- in a number of 'approved places - where there is an immediate risk the woman may die -with no provision for emergencies
4. It will not protect the morning after pill or the IUD from legal challenge
5.It will endanger the lives of women and girls by denying Health Boards the power to take a suicidal rape victim, like the girl in the C case of 1997 abroad for an abortion


PLEASE SUPPORT US TO DEFEND WOMENS RIGHTS.
YOU CAN EMAIL US MESSAGES OF SUPPORT INDIVIDUALLY AND FROM WOMENS GROUPS,SOCIAL,COMMUNITY,AND VOLUNTARY GROUPS.
DEFEAT THE GOVERNMENT'S
HYPOCRISY IN THIS REFERENDUM.
photo opportunity O'Connell Bridge
Island with women if you are available 12.30 before main Rally.

PRO WOMAN-VOTE NO
hope to see you on the day, thank you.


Tel 086 361 5287
Email allianceforanovote@eircom.net
Website: http://struggle.ws/voteno.html
Cheques payable to ANV, A/c No: 38862466 Bank of Ireland 90 13 78


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That's HAPPY CITY SAMBA SCHOOL!
author by Joe Carolanpublication date Tue Feb 12, 2002 15:19author address author phone

not hippy salsa band!

from a long suffering sambista!

By the way, Happy City get our name from the motto of Dublin City, that you can see on lamposts, bins and the like on the Crest. In Latin, it is Obentia Civium, Urbis Felicitas, which translated means-

Obedient citizens make a happy city!

Pr la movmenta de las survival de les favelas
Yours in disobedience
Joe C

maybe leave her alone?
author by free abortion nowpublication date Tue Feb 12, 2002 18:16author address author phone

Someone mentioned at an anv meeting that we should just leave ms. x out of it, not use her as a political tool every abortion referendum (and there's been 5 of 'em in the last 20 years). She is a real person, somewhere, with real feelings and doesn't deserve to have her past dragged up again.
Good idea but maybe just leave out the "ms. x" bit from the title - or are the posters already printed??
why are comments always so moany??

Why?
author by girlpublication date Wed Feb 13, 2002 13:23author address author phone

Do we need another abortion refferendum? We know how people think ,there has been no major shift in opinion.Talk about a waste of money.

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