To ask you to consider donating? (Pro choice)

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I don’t usually do this and I'm sorry for this slight abuse of AIBU. But.

The 8th amendment in Irish constitutional law means women have no access to abortion services. In any situation. Not if you’ve been raped. Not if you’re 12 years old. Not if very far along, you discover your baby has no chance of life after you give birth.

As it’s illegal to seek an abortion, there is also a huge, suffocating silence around it. This video is a friend of mine, reading one of the stories from the Facebook page ‘Women of the Eight’, where people anonymously tell their stories.

MNers, please could you consider donating, or sharing the Women of the 8th Facebook page? Non-Irish US interests are pouring money into the anti-choice camp, funding the usual kinds of horrible campaigns. The national vote to repeal the 8th and allow access is on May 25th.

Women of the 8th

Spam.

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We only allow fundraising for registered charities to be promoted on our Talk boards - and these threads should be posted on the Charities noticeboard. This is in the interest of protecting our users as we aren't able to vouch for or endorse individuals running crowdfunding campaigns or anything along those lines.

Oh, I didn't realise - I've seen petitions on all sorts on here before. I will ask MNHQ to edit to take out the donation link.

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Bumping for you, thanks for the link

MNHQ are ok for this to stay and have edited the post to remove the link. Thanks MNHQ!

Where does the money go exactly?

There are more stories here - www.repealeight.ie/category/personal-stories/

This is from the Abortion rights Campaign's page - these are the folks behind the Together for Yes campaign - primarily at the moment money is going to fund the Together for Yes campaign in advance of the referendum on the 25th.

'Referendum Funding – 16th March 2018

The Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC) is a voluntary, grassroots movement for change in Ireland. We are not in receipt of any public funds.

The Abortion Rights Campaign will be campaigning for a yes vote in the upcoming referendum and is a lead campaign in the ‘Together for Yes’ campaign. Over the past 5 years, ARC have raised €175,000 through individual donations from Irish residents, fundraising events and merchandise sales.

Over the next 9 weeks, ARC hope to raise a further €80,000 through our supporters to use for referendum campaigning. ARC will also be encouraging donations to the ‘Together for Yes’ campaign. ARC plan to primarily spend funds on posters, leaflets and canvassing materials over the course of the referendum campaign.

In March 2018, the Abortion Rights Campaign registered with the Standards in Public Office commission as a Third Party. ARC operate in accordance with all statutory and regulatory requirements.'

@IHatemeat - the money is being used to try and counteract the campaign by the anti-abortion crowd. They are very well funded, particularly by American pro-life organisations. They have a very active poster and leaflet campaign, with much of the information being, at best, half truths and at worst, outright lies. For example, they hired an actuarial firm to, they claim, work out what the level of abortion would have been in Ireland without the 8th. According to them, 100,000 lives have been saved by the 8th. Except what they don't mention that they based the numbers on those in other jurisdictions that had high rates of abortion without any consideration of whether the same circumstances would apply in Ireland.

They've recently hired Thomas Borwick to supposedly create a website for them. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-abortion-fake-news-firestorm-heading-our-way-1.3440927?mode=amp&campaign_id=A100

Yes you would be.

YANBU- it’s such an important cause