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(en) wsm.ie: It was the X-case which politicised me - and I'll march again on the 30th
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Thu, 21 Sep 2017 08:43:33 +0300
Choice is a political issue. I emigrated to the UK in the 80's and when I returned to
Dublin it was the X-case which politicised me. It was incomprehensible to me as a 23 year
old that this young 14 year old girl who had been raped was not allowed to leave the
country. ---- I was not the only one who felt strongly about this, and there were massive
marches asking for the young woman to be let go to the UK to have an abortion. That was
1992[in the picture I am there holding the placard on the left]. I felt like I had to
leave this place to come back and see it with new eyes, and see how dysfunctional it truly
was, and remains. ---- Now 25 years on, we still do not have free, safe and legal
abortion here. We still have the 8th Amendment in the constitution and that has to be
repealed. That is the first step. People power is the only way that such freedoms are
won. Successive politicians, parties and governments have allowed this dysfunction to
continue, which has led to deaths, suicides and untold misery for thousands of women here.
This has to stop. We cannot trust the same powers that be, who have done nothing on
this issue, and have allowed it to continue to now draft a referendum on it. We need to
be on the streets, engaged in the struggle for reproductive rights and the repeal of the
8th amendment.
Anarchists have a belief in individual liberty, and whilst the 8th amendment exists here,
that individual liberty does not exist for women in this State. How we got here is a long
sad lesson in history involving the church and state dancing together to make us a model
little country. The battle for choice is integral to fixing the broken society that we
have. It requires us all to be engaged in that struggle. See you on the 30th of September.
Archive footage from RTE of the x-case march - the WSM banner can be viewed at about 4
seconds in
Subject: X-case, Repeal 8th, Pro-choice
Topics: Gender
Geography: Dublin
Multimedia: Images
Source: News alert
Type: News
Author: Dermot Freeman
https://www.wsm.ie/c/x-case-politicised-me
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