The Abortion Rights Campaign is using a scheduled review of Ireland’s abortion legislation to campaign for even greater access to the procedure and override the conscience rights of medics.
Among other things, the lobby group want to end the 12-week limit for abortion on request, an end to the mandatory three-day waiting period; telemedicine (allowing people to order and take all abortion pills at home) to continue permanently after the pandemic emergency period ends; repeal of conscientious objection; a ban on protests or vigils outside centres where abortion takes place.
As part of the campaign, they have initiated an online survey to gather information from people who have had, or tried to have, an abortion in Ireland since January 2019, when abortion here was legalised. In 2019, 6,666 abortions took place here. The data gleaned from the survey will be used to influence the review.
