"Too Many Barriers: Experiences of Abortion in Ireland after Repeal"
Channel: Abortion Rights Campaign
Date: 2021-10-05

The Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC) developed and conducted an extensive research project to evaluate individuals’ experiences of Ireland’s abortion services. This event presented the major findings as well as discussion by a panel of experts to mark International Safe Abortion Day in September 2021. The full report is available at www.abortionrightscampaign.ie/research. 

Speakers:
Lorraine Grimes is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Social Science Institute at Maynooth University on the project ‘Digital Preservation of Reproductive Health Resources: Archiving the 8th’. She has worked on projects including the World Health Organisation project ‘Reproductive Health: The Implementation of Abortion Policy in Ireland’, and has a number of forthcoming publications focusing on unmarried motherhood, maternity care and stillbirth in Britain and Ireland.

Mary Favier is a General Practitioner in Cork. She is a founding member of Doctors for Choice Ireland and current co-chair of Global Doctors for Choice.
 
Mairead Enright is a Reader in Feminist Legal Studies at the University of Birmingham and a founder member of Lawyers for Choice. With Fiona de Londras she wrote Repealing the Eighth: Reforming Irish Abortion Law (2018).

Mara Clarke founded charity Abortion Support Network, which has been helping people cross European borders to access abortions since 2009. She can’t wait until the amazing groups campaigning for abortion law reform make ASN obsolete.

This video has been automatically captioned, so there may be errors.