The interviewee is an Italian female migrant in her 30s. She talks about her experience of activism in Italy prior to becoming involved in pro-choice campaigning in Ireland with MERJ. She talks about her difficulties in finding a way to become close to the Abortion Rights Campaig
Anarchism | Abortion | reproductive rights
Éilís grew up in the west of Ireland. For the early years of campaigning she was living in Dublin. In her interview she speaks about her experience of moving to a rural area in the west where she assisted in setting up a branch of the Abortion Rights Campaign. She talks about her
Non-hierarchical | Abortion | reproductive rights
The interviewee is a migrant from the US in her early 40s. She grew up mixed-race, in an environment where race and class politics have always been central to her experience of activism. She is very critical of other abortion campaign organisations as not being not sufficiently i
Anarchism | abortion | reproductive rights
The interviewee is an Irish female activist who was spurred into grassroots mobilization for choice following the Ms Y case. She joined the Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC) in 2014 and worked with the Abortion Rights Campaign’s regional groups as a representative for partnership an
Abortion | reproductive rights | Protest movements
Interviewee is a Dublin-based woman in her 20s, whose parents were trade unionists. Her prior involvement in politics was attending demos and she became active around the 2012 Youth Defence posters, working in a central capacity in the Abortion Rights Campaign and then in Togethe
Non-hierarchical | Abortion | reproductive rights
The interviewee is a young woman who was actively involved in grassroots groups that mobilised around liberalising access to the morning after pill, making the the abortion pill and care packages available, with the group Need Abortion Ireland and the Strike for Repeal action. Sh
Abortion | reproductive rights | Protest movements
The interviewee is a midwife. She talks about being involved in various pro-choice groups set up by midwives and medical staff in general. She talks about tensions within some of the groups with which she engaged and her frustration with the scant attention paid to midwives' effo
Abortion | reproductive rights | Protest movements
The interviewee is a woman in her mid-thirties. During her third pregnancy, her foetus was diagnosed with a fatal foetal syndrome. Due to financial constraints, she was unable to travel abroad for termination. In this interview she talks about her experience of having no other op
Non-hierarchical | Abortion | reproductive rights
The interviewee is in her thirties and lives in Dublin. She grew up on a farm in the south of Ireland and spoke of her first political activity in terms of involvement in a peace and justice group in her school. As a university student in Dublin, she became politically active an
Non-hierarchical | Anarchism | Abortion