Day of Action Against the Information Act!

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Tuesday February 24, 2004 12:01 by Niav - Alliance For Choice

Pro Choice Demonstration on International Women's Day, 8th March at the Department of Justice, St. Stephen's Green at 12:30.

On International Women's Day, 'Alliance For Choice' will be publicly breaking the 1995 Information Act outside the Department of Justice in Dublin.
We will be publicly distributing leaflets that include the names and telephone numbers of clinics in the United Kingdom and Europe.

What is the Information Act?
The 'Abortion Information Act 1995' severely restricts Irish peoples access to information about abortion services abroad.
The Act sets out the conditions under which information (the names, addresses and telephone numbers of abortion clinics) may be given, by individuals
or agencies, on legal abortion services available outside Ireland. Under the terms of the Act, information can only be given
in the context of face-to-face counselling. Non-directive counselling
(which provides women with information about all their options - parenting, adoption and abortion) is only offered by the Irish Family Planning Association,
the Dublin Well Woman Clinic and Cherish. Pregnancy counselling agencies are not obliged to give information on abortion services.
It is illegal for a doctor to make an appointment with a clinic on behalf of a pregnant woman, even if her health is at risk.

Please support/participate in this event on March 8th!