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BODY which is a diverse group of young pro-choice activists that are campaigning for safe and legal abortion services in Ireland lauched today. BODY stands for bold open decisive youth. The launch involved pro-choice women setting up a cage made of coat hangers from within which they leafletted passers-by.

Click below for an interview by Tobie:

Q: Can you tell us what you are here doing today.

BODY: We are here representing BODY, a group of young people have got to getting to try and push for a pro-choice referendum in Ireland. We think that its completely unacceptable that women have to travel to Britain and far beyond to access full reproductive health rights.

Q: What is the cage you are standing in right now?

BODY: We have made it entirely out of wire hangers representing the way women are caged in Ireland with the lack of information, financial constraints and secrecy surrounding abortion in the country. The wire hangers were chosen to represent the rise and return of illegal abortions that have started to crop up again among communities that are not able to access abortion services abroad.

Q: What is significant about the number seventeen?

BODY: Every day at least 17 women leave Ireland to access abortion services abroad, mainly in Britain but her have heard stories of women going further afield; in Amsterdam, Russia and the united states to access abortion. The 17 women that we know of are attending British clinics alone and doesn't include the women that are going further abroad.

Q: What are the demands that BODY are putting forth?

BODY: We believe the time is right now for a pro-choice referendum. We believe that young people are ready now and vocal enough to push for this agenda. We think that enough there are enough people among student, activist and pro-choice groups that are all ready and all willing to launch a massive campaign for full abortion services and sexual reproductive health services in Ireland.

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
 1   Abortion is murder     Prionsias    Tue Dec 13, 2005 14:19 
 2   prionsias     pat c    Tue Dec 13, 2005 14:28 
 3   great launch     pat c    Tue Dec 13, 2005 14:34 
 4   a step too far..     Cirs    Tue Dec 13, 2005 14:57 
 5   cirs     pat c    Tue Dec 13, 2005 15:01 
 6   Proinsias is spelt Proinsias     Proinsias    Tue Dec 13, 2005 15:15 
 7   More Info Please     Dublin Exile    Tue Dec 13, 2005 16:14 
 8   BODY     pat c    Tue Dec 13, 2005 16:17 
 9   Reply     eif    Tue Dec 13, 2005 17:35 
 10   Hoping all goes well for Body     Siabon    Tue Dec 13, 2005 17:49 
 11   now's the time     a guy called satan    Tue Dec 13, 2005 17:58 
 12   BODY flyer     tobie*    Tue Dec 13, 2005 19:47 
 13   Siabon     Sara    Tue Dec 13, 2005 20:29 
 14   free?     flamini    Tue Dec 13, 2005 21:03 
 15   free     sa    Wed Dec 14, 2005 11:29 
 16   Go Irish Times!!     Mick Flint    Wed Dec 14, 2005 11:48 
 17   more than 6     pat c    Wed Dec 14, 2005 11:52 
 18   Major issue     sa(again)    Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:27 
 19   Any chance of a reply?     Dublin Exile    Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:54 
 20   Responses to exile     Joe    Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:59 
 21   The 1980s     historian    Wed Dec 14, 2005 13:03 
 22   Thanks Joe     Dublin Exile    Wed Dec 14, 2005 13:22 
 23   Historian     pat c    Wed Dec 14, 2005 13:36 
 24   Constitution     sa    Wed Dec 14, 2005 14:21 
 25   No abortion nation.     plato    Wed Dec 14, 2005 15:46 
 26   Pro-Lifers don't believe that abortion is murder.     Noel Hogan    Wed Dec 14, 2005 16:28 
 27   anti-choice groups     observer    Wed Dec 14, 2005 16:41 
 28   observor     pat c    Wed Dec 14, 2005 17:10 
 29   Life     eif    Wed Dec 14, 2005 17:30 
 30   Abortion is not really an issue of 'pro-choice'. There are a whole wider range of issues involved.     Mary O'Donoghue    Wed Dec 14, 2005 20:39 
 31   Support for BODY     Dee    Wed Dec 14, 2005 21:31 
 32   Great Work Tobie and everyone involved     Cormac    Wed Dec 14, 2005 22:01 
 33   Response to Catholic Dinosaurs     Dino    Wed Dec 14, 2005 23:34 
 34   Its not as simple as that.     Mary O'Donoghue    Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:25 
 35   Its got nothing to do with God. Why do you keep implying this?     Harry    Thu Dec 15, 2005 14:45 
 36   Pat C     Cirs    Thu Dec 15, 2005 15:19 
 37   Cirs     L    Thu Dec 15, 2005 15:22 
 38   cirs     pat c    Thu Dec 15, 2005 15:35 
 39   The reality     AgainstPoliticalCorrectness    Fri Dec 16, 2005 08:32 
 40   against logical ineptness     ali la pointe    Fri Dec 16, 2005 13:00 
 41   Abortion in the United States and the World     pat c    Fri Dec 16, 2005 16:44 
 42   Way to Go! Is Women choice!     Cristian    Mon Dec 19, 2005 18:28 
 43   nobody except the Jew     Sara    Mon Dec 19, 2005 20:20 
 44   sara     pat c    Tue Dec 20, 2005 11:44 
 45   HUMAN RIGHTS ARE WORTHLESS     Brénoc    Tue Dec 20, 2005 18:13 
 46   From San Francisco     Elizabeth    Tue Dec 20, 2005 22:10 
 47   Right on, BODY - we are with you in struggle!     Toni Mendicino    Wed Dec 21, 2005 01:30 
 48   Great initiative BODY!     Joana    Wed Dec 21, 2005 15:49 
 49   Nothing New in the BODY Campaign     A O'Byrne    Wed Dec 21, 2005 21:12 
 50   a o byrne     pat c    Thu Dec 22, 2005 11:07 
 51   look at the ultersound     Sara    Thu Dec 22, 2005 17:07 
 52   ultrasound     pro choice lady    Thu Dec 22, 2005 17:40 
 53   ok sara... this is an ultrasound at one month     weapons of mass distraction proliferator    Thu Dec 22, 2005 17:47 
 54   Ultersound     Sara    Thu Dec 22, 2005 19:50 
 55   weapons of mass distraction     Sara    Thu Dec 22, 2005 19:52 
 56   ok sara... this is an ultrasound at 8 weeks     weapons of mass distraction proliferator    Thu Dec 22, 2005 20:31 
 57   baby or not?????     Sara    Thu Dec 22, 2005 21:28 
 58   sara sara sara...     weapons of mass distraction proliferator    Thu Dec 22, 2005 22:13 
 59   a child has AIDS     Sara    Thu Dec 22, 2005 22:33 
 60   Nazi?     Grammar Police    Thu Dec 22, 2005 22:58 
 61   Hold on...     random domran    Fri Dec 23, 2005 02:59 
 62   Hotshot??     pro choice lady    Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:14 
 63   Who Cares?     Setanta    Fri Dec 23, 2005 16:24 
 64   hotshot     sara    Sun Dec 25, 2005 16:08 
 65   Women die in childbirth     Safety    Tue Dec 27, 2005 17:49 
 66   State paid for teen’s abortion abroad     pat c    Tue Jan 03, 2006 17:08 
 67   Travel to Britian!?!     Shannon    Wed Jan 04, 2006 18:01 
 68   Slovak-Vatican abortion deal criticised by EU experts     redjade    Thu Jan 05, 2006 13:24 
 69   FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT'S LOGICAL!     Brénoc    Tue Jan 17, 2006 22:08 
 70   pro-life pro-choice illogical     booms    Wed Jan 18, 2006 00:57 
 71   Pro choice     joanne    Sun May 14, 2006 22:06 
 72   logic     tomski    Wed Nov 01, 2006 22:58 
 73   hard choice     lesser of two evils...    Thu Nov 02, 2006 01:54 
 74   Get your facts straight     ab06    Mon Feb 25, 2008 01:02 
 75   update the argument     elizabeth    Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:22 
 76   mistake     ab06    Mon Mar 03, 2008 00:50 
 77   whats a mother?     elizabeth    Mon Mar 03, 2008 09:50 
 78   Ultrasound - Thank You     Mark C    Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:49 
 79   I have been reading this thread, Mark     C Murray    Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:33 
 80   human rights     ab06    Wed Mar 26, 2008 22:10 
 81   Lies lies lies!     Niav    Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:12 
 82   good article on the subject of abortion by george monbiot     HEBGB    Mon Mar 31, 2008 22:42 
 83   Birth Control     KP    Thu Jan 20, 2011 04:19 
 84   Less gossip more fact     More fact than fiction    Thu Jan 20, 2011 14:49 
 85   A Passing Comment     Mr Man    Thu Jan 20, 2011 15:32 


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