Former Regional Director at Int Planned Parenthood Europe (IPPF). Irish. Tweeting mainly about sexual and reproductive health and rights. Own thoughts.
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Friends in Dublin - a great new play by a great new young playwright, just been in Edinburgh fringe and coming to Dublin 2 - 4 Sept. Ciúnas - Smock Alley Theatre 1662 smockalley.com/ciunas/ via @smockalley
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In our new #IEfrontline #podcast, with guests @MarionBoeker. @TanjavKnorring & @HicksonHick. we explore how inclusionary women’s rights organisations are responding to the efforts of exclusionary actors to narrow the frame for #feminism ilga-europe.org/podcast/the-…
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‼️ A pregnant woman is currently at risk of dying in a hospital in #Malta ‼️
Woman currently in a #Malta hospital is 16 weeks pregnant with ruptured membranes and detaching placenta is having her request for life-saving abortion declined because there is still a fetal heartbeat. Malta has a total ban on abortion. Tragedy unfolding! facebook.com/100064854488220…
This is happening NOW. #Malta puts ideology ahead of saving a woman’s life. Get her out of this situation, please no more #Savita, #Izabela, #Valentina ‘s dying in EU hospitals . Inconceivable, unacceptable theguardian.com/global-devel…
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“If you have a painful period, you should be as entitled to medical leave as any other illness. It’s about the normalization of something so simple, so basic – that for years has been such a source of shame and stigma.” – @HicksonHick of @ippfen 🙌
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"Regression on women's rights, and particularly on their reproductive rights, actually goes hand in hand with regression on the #RuleOfLaw and democracy" says @HicksonHick for @SonyaDiehn via @dwnews.
🗞️ bit.ly/3wEnuBw
No more beautiful mornings in #Oklahoma for women forced through full pregnancies against their consent. #ReproductiveCoercion
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It's been two weeks since the #RoeVWade draft was leaked.
In my new article for @voicemaguk, I spoke with experts and activists about how overturning the case could not only implicate the US but countries across the world as well.
Read the story here: voicemag.uk/blog/10992/overt…
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🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Today is #IDAHOBIT2022 – but we're proudly committed to fighting for and celebrating people in all their diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions every day ✊ Are you with us?
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‼️This is absolutely scandalous. EU-Commission putting rule of law mechanism on ice.
Attacks on democracy and the rule of law by Orban and PiS governments DID NOT STOP the day Russia invaded Ukraine. They are going on EVERY DAY. /1
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Europeans can't live in the 19th century!!!
Check out my piece on the first in-depth analysis of #abortion policies across #Europe 👇
@HicksonHick @EPF_SRR @ippfen @SophieintVeld #InternationalSafeAbortionDay #28Sept @5050oD
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My own country, #Ireland could certainly do better. Women are still travelling who have not been able meet the twelve weeks limit, often in tragic circumstances just like before the referendum. On this map there is no excuse for us not to appear in our customary green! @IrishFPA
❗️ We mark the #InternationalSafeAbortionDay by reminding everyone that women and girls in Europe are still forced to continue pregnancies against their will.
Together with @EPF_SRR we scored 52 European countries based on access to abortion care: bit.ly/3AGgGTs
Stunned to hear fm Dr Elizabeth Canitano that religiously affiliated medics in Italy prefer to give a woman a hysterectomy than an IUD. As someone whose hysterectomy went wrong, with even my kidney threatened at one point, can't tell u how furious that makes me @vitadidonna
That’s my niece taking notes at the UNSC. Go girl!
At every #SecurityCouncil meeting, many important jobs happen away from the horseshoe table & 🎥 glare
Our humanitarian adviser Alex & Middle East adviser Benita pictured here take notes to report to @dfatirl HQ & analyze Friday’s Yemen meeting
#BehindtheScenes
#IrelandUNSC 🇮🇪
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🇭🇷🌈 Promising news from Croatia: A court has reportedly ruled that same-sex partners can now adopt children, backing a gay couple in their five-year fight for the right to family life. More → ow.ly/njWu50EHrbD
Great to have MSD for Mother’s as a partner. With Covid now more than ever we need multi stakeholder approaches to supporting adolescent and maternal health
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Such a distressing story. Disgraceful that couples still being put through this torture even after Repealing the 8th. @ippfen @IrishFPA Opinion: Our baby would not live, so we had to travel to London. Our hearts are broken (via @thejournal_ie) jrnl.ie/5381970
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This day 37 years ago – 31 January 1984 – Ann Lovett, a 15-year-old girl, was found beside a grotto in Co Longford, having given birth to a stillborn baby. She later died.
Soon after, Gay Byrne read out letters on his radio show from listeners who had also given birth in secret.
