Alliance for a No Vote
- Pro Choice
A broad umbrella for political
and civil groups to come together to oppose the passing of
the 25th Amendment to the Constitution (Protection of Human
Life in Pregnancy) Bill, 2001
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ANV
welcomes mandate to legislate for X case
"The people have given their
verdict on the government proposal, and it is a clear mandate to
legislate for the X case. Politicians, of whatever party, now have no
excuse to avoid the issue. They have to bring in laws to vindicate
the right to an abortion for suicidal women.
"We also need to move on and address the wider
questions. Rape and suicide victims should be allowed the choice of
terminating their pregnancies, as should women, such as Deirdre de
Barra, carrying foetuses that cannot survive. Now that the
government's referendum has been rejected, the whole issue of
abortion in Ireland has to be addressed properly.
ANV spokesperson Cathleen O'Neill
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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
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TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF
'X' CASE
Five
changes, Five reasons to vote no
Alliance for a No Vote Legal briefing on referendum
Press releases
[Press
releases that have yet to be uploaded to this site]
Leaflets
PD
hypocrisy endangers women's lives
Is the PDs' survival in government more important to them than their
liberal principles? Instead of hypocritically putting women's lives
in danger, we should be facing up to the reality of abortion.
Criminalised
- Exiled - Silenced
The abortion Bill that Fianna Fail and the PDs are railroading
through the Dail criminalises, exiles and silences tens of thousands
of Irish women.
[PDF
version of this leaflet for you to print out and distribute]
No
abortions here, says Bertie
- even if you've been raped and you're suicidal
[PDF
version of this leaflet for you to print out and distribute]
Background information
Press coverage
Contact the Alliance
Post: Alliance for a
NO Vote, PO Box 8306, Dublin 1
Email:
allianceforanovote@eircom.net
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Who we are and what we believe
We are a broad umbrella for political and civil groups to come
together to oppose the passing of the 25th Amendment to the
Constitution (Protection of Human Life in Pregnancy) Bill, 2001. Our
membership is open to individuals, small groups and large
organisations.
ANV believes that the proposals
- Restrict the right to life of the pregnant women by
excluding the risk of suicide
- Reverse the X case
- Criminalise vulnerable women and those who seek to
assist them in their plight
- Restrict the rights of women whose freedom to travel
is inhibited
- Place further pressure on suicidal women and women
with psychological illness
- Perpetuate social and economic inequality by
entrenching the present unequal access to services in
England
- Fail to provide for the rights of women whose health
is endangered by continuing with pregnancy
- Put the health of women in danger through late
abortions
- Are legally flawed, constitutionally cumbersome and
not recommended by the Oireachtas Committee
- Ignore the real issue of the 18 women who travel to
England each day, today, tomorrow and every day
- Are insulting to the integrity of the medical
profession
- Are hypocritical by exporting the problem and
refusing to deal with abortion in Ireland as a sovereign
independent Republic
- Discriminate against women living in poverty
- Are more extreme than the current 1861 legislation
- Are unsupportive of women in crisis pregnancy and
undermine the objectives of the Crisis Pregnancy Agency
- Ignores the real experiences of 75,000 Irish women
who have had abortions since 1983
- Repeats the mistakes of the proposal on the
substantive issue already defeated in 1992
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We aim to coordinate a public campaign and provide a platform
for opposing the passage of the proposals through
- raising public and political awareness of the principled
objections to the proposals
- providing a detailed analysis of the flaws in the Bill
- ensuring the myth of a political consensus on the proposals is
dispelled
- lobbying politicians for a "No" vote on the passage of the
Bill through the Oireachtas,
- campaigning for a 'No' vote, if the Bill passes through the
Oireachtas.
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