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Alliance For Choice condemns Bush’s ‘War on Women’!
‘Alliance For Choice’ is a diverse group of pro-choice activists who are campaigning for free, safe and legal abortion services in Ireland. Alliance For Choice, have signed on to the ‘March for Women’s Lives’ in order to express our solidarity and support with women worldwide. On Sunday 25th April, hundreds of thousands of American Pro-Choice activists will take part in the ‘March for Women’s Lives’ in Washington D.C. This massive mobilisation is taking place in order to protest against the dangerous policy restrictions and cuts in funding for reproductive health services in the USA that have been implemented by President George Bush. The organisers of this demonstration include the American Civil Liberties Union, Black Women’s Health Imperative, Feminist Majority, NARAL Pro-Choice America, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, National Organisation for Women and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Many celebrities have backed the demonstration including Academy award-winning actress Helen Hunt, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Aniston, Glen Close, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg.
Although the right to choose is guaranteed by the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, US state legislatures have moved aggressively to restrict women's access to reproductive health services. Often, those restrictions are challenged on a legal basis, making the court system one of the most important fronts in the ongoing struggle to protect the right to choose. President George Bush has waged war on women’s reproductive rights constantly since his election in 2000. He has prohibited any federal aid from going to international family planning organisations that provide abortion counselling, referrals, or services with their own funds. He has also selected Dr. W. David Hager to head up the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA makes decisions on matters relating to drugs used in the practice of obstetrics, gynaecology and related specialities. Dr. Hager, who is deeply religious and pro-life, has refused to prescribe contraceptives to unmarried women. In his book, co-written with his wife, “Stress and the Woman’s Body”, Dr. Hager suggests that women who suffer from premenstrual syndrome should seek help from reading the bible and praying!
Commenting Niav Keating said, “Like successive Irish governments, President George Bush mixes religion and politics in an inappropriate and dangerous way that seriously threatens women’s lives and health. We condemn Bush’s visit to Ireland in June and will be participating in the protests when he arrives.”
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4I am a woman and I believe a true feminist. I am saddened when I hear women calling for the deaths of other women (those unborn), are these people insane that with full knowledge of what happens to a child during an abortion, they still wish to support it. Please don't include me when you talk of pro-choice, do you support Bush's choice to kill aswell?
Sadly, members of this group picketed a Gathering for the Silent No More Awareness Campaign in Derry on Thursday 5th October.
Women, and men, who have had abortions speak out through the campaign to raise awareness that abortion does not solve our problems, it just creates new ones. In Derry, members of this group led by a Ms Horgan, shouted and chanted as myself and Georgette Forney from the Campaign gave our stories. They showed no compassion for us as women having had abortions nor for the women they were preventing from hearing that help was available to them if they too were struggling after abortion. They were aggressive and attempting to be intimidating and had no regard for my 9 yr old daughter who was standing there and frightened by their behaviour.
Is it any wonder that of the 165 women we have had through after abortion recovery programmes in Ireland such as Rachel's Vineyard, in the last three years, are afraid to speak out? There are several women preparing to speak out in the coming year but it takes a lot of courage to do it. Some have yet to tell their families. Can you imagine how they would have felt being harassed by these men and women and treated worse than those who would say women who have had abortions deserve everything they get? Where is their mindset at? They say they care for women and for women's rights and yet here they are treating us with disgust, using foul language and being threatening and abusive?
One of the protestors continually harassed me at the end of the Gathering as I was clearing away. She repeatedly said to me 'Shame on you'. I asked her what part of feminism and sisterly solidarity with women did she not understand? I asked her why she took away my human right to freedom of speech? What about the rights of the women who needed to hear that help was available? No reply but a continual chant of 'Shame on you.' She couldn't say anything else as she had no substance to her argument and is obviously completely misguded in her thinking.
I am sure, like me, there are women amongst that group who have had abortions although no-one identified themselves to us. I too was very pro choice after my decision to abort my son Stephen on 21st Sept 1980. But my 'choice' was based on misinformation and fear. No woman instinctively chooses abortion. No woman says 'Hey! I had an abortion and it was great!' Women need better than abortion and society needs to change its mindset that abortion is the quick fix answer to our problems. I would like to say to any woman who does not regret their abortion that we do not wish to make you feel guilty or feel shame. If you have no problems, then we are please for you and thankful that you don't. But there are many thousands who do and need help. If however, you find in years to come you do experience problems, then we are there for you and can help you. Please contact us.
Please check out the Silent No More website and read testimonies from men and women about their abortion experiences. It is time the voices of experience are heard over the rhetoric. The campaign is not political although we agree that the abortion issue needs to be looked at on a political, moral and ethical basis, the campaign is all about personal stories and experiences sharing the truth about the long term psychological, mental, emotional and physical effects of abortion. Women of Ireland deserve better than abortion.
www.silentnomoreawareness.org
Helpline number for Ireland: 0845 456 3839
Kind regards
Lynn Coles
Regional Coordinator for the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, for Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland
As one of the people who organised the counter-protest in Derry's Guildhall Square to the "Silent No More" gathering, I have no problem in explaining why we started chanting and drowning out what this tiny, unrepresentative group was saying.
The local media had alerted us, late on Wed evening, to the arrival of a "group of women" who would speak out about how they regretted their abortions and why they thought abortion is NEVER a solution. Between 10pm on Wed and lunchtime Thursday, the word went around that pro-choice activists needed to be in Guildhall Square to ensure these views did not go unchallenged. A group of 7 - 8 people arrived, 3-4 women, 2-3 men and a child and started to preach (yes, that's the right word, because everything they said was deeply imbued with religion) These were joined by 2-3 Derry anti-abortion activists. The 10 or so anti-abortionists were well outnumbered by the 30+ counter-protesters.
To start with, we listened in silence to what they had to say, simply holding up our placards and banners. They had an impressive PA system so we were in no doubt about their message. It was not only about their personal experiences but about the need to end legal abortion everywhere. They related their (American) experience of over 35 years of legal abortion, not seeming to realise that abortion has been legal in Britain for nearly 40 years. The chanting only started when they continued to spout on and on, giving totally inaccurate "facts" about the impact of abortion on women's physical and mental health.
Had we not called this counter-protest, the only thing reported in the local media would have been their misinformation about the effect of abortion. Instead, by turning up in the numbers we did, we were able to force the (very catholic) local media to report that, e.g., Prof Patricia Casey of the Pro Life Campaign in the South had admitted that there is no such thing as "post-abortion syndrome" and that the proportion of women suffering psychological distress after an abortion is no greater than those who suffer psychological distress after giving birth.
1.Women's caucas and co-operations on choice: http://www.federa.org.pl/signatures
2.Latin American IPS/political co-operation: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34852
3.and stop violence against women: http://www.radiofeminisat.net/agosto06/camp_violencia/c...a.htm
4.also: violence against women in conflict situations: http://www.amnesty.org
The get involved page on indymedia should also contain links to global where
you can access information on the women's site/chatrooms/online volunteer
for feminist outreach.