Pro-Choice

 

"Over the 20 years since 1983, we know that 100,000 Irish women have had to travel to England for abortions. Women with crisis pregnancies are continuing to travel every day of the week. But while we have gone through five different referendums, nothing has changed for them. It is time for us to recognise the real needs of women and change the law"

Labour Youth is campaign for free, safe and legal abortion in Ireland.

Labour Youth believes in a woman's right to choose and we demand that women receive the very best of medical and social care in Ireland in regard to all matters of fertility and sexual health.

We are affiliated to the Alliance for Choice and are the only youth party in Ireland that is actively campaigning for abortion services to be made available.

"If I had a pound for every fundraiser I worked on to help working class women go to England for an abortion, I'd be a rich woman. Taking children into our homes for the duration of the visit - pretending that Mammy was gone to a funeral; holding pub quizzes, and running limited draws, as well as running sales of work and raffles under weird and wonderful names to preserve anonymity. Almost every other week. It's bad enough for those who can afford to travel, but for poorer women it's hell. It 's time those who claim to represent us to get a grip on reality and take steps to end this nightmare" - Cathleen O'Neill