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2024.3.21
Siege days are over: how Northern Ireland came to lead the UK on abortion
包囲網の時代は終わった：北アイルランドはいかにして人工妊娠中絶で英国をリードするようになったか
The chilling atmosphere of pickets and protests at clinics has given way to a new ‘gold standard’ of careRory Carroll, Ireland correspondent
Thu 21 Mar 2024The family planning advisers at Shaftesbury Square still remember the days of siege when anti-abortion protesters staked out the front and rear entrance of their office in central Belfast.
Some pickets would splash holy water on the doors and daub salt crosses on the pavement while others would thrust leaflets with pictures of babies and foetuses at woman entering or leaving the building, and sometimes follow them.
Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/21/how-northern-ireland-came-to-lead-the-uk-on-abortion
2024.3.6
Women's rights activists launch effort to expand abortion rights to EU level
European NGOs said they would launch a new initiative aimed at advancing reproductive rights.By Lauren Chadwick
March 5, 2024Women's rights activists across Europe are joining forces to push for a dedicated funding mechanism in the European Union to make sure that women in the bloc have access to abortion.
欧州全域の女性の権利活動家たちが力を合わせ、欧州連合（EU）域内の女性が中絶を受けられるようにするため、EUに専用の資金提供メカニズムを設けるよう働きかけているThe movement called "My Voice, My Choice" was launched in Slovenia on Tuesday and brought together activists from several European countries including Spain, Finland, Poland, France, Croatia, and Ireland.
「私の声、私の選択」と名付けられたこの運動は、火曜日にスロベニアで開始され、スペイン、フィンランド、ポーランド、フランス、クロアチア、アイルランドを含むヨーロッパの国々から活動家が集まった。"We are organising at the European level to push the abortion issue forward," Marta Lempart, one of the leaders of the Polish Women's Strike, told Euronews Health ahead of the announcement.
2024.3.5
Searching for Savita
Abortion bans are killing women. Where are their stories?
サヴィタを探して
中絶禁止は女性を殺す。彼女たちの物語はどこにあるのか？
JESSICA VALENTI
MAR 5, 2024
When Savita Halappanavar died in 2012, it was a turning point for abortion rights in Ireland. The 31 year-old Indian dentist was hospitalized when she was seventeen weeks pregnant and miscarrying. Over the course of three days, Savita begged for help again and again and was refused—even as her health rapidly deteriorated.
At the time, Irish law only allowed abortion when a woman’s life was imminently at risk. And even though there was no hope for her fetus, it still had a heartbeat.
Savita died of septic shock, in pain and surrounded by medical professionals who could have saved her life, but didn’t.
https://jessica.substack.com/p/searching-for-savita
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2024.2.24
Northern Ireland's Abortion Law: An Outdated Norm or a Necessary Protection?
北アイルランドの妊娠中絶法：時代遅れの規範か、必要な保護か？Mason Walker
24 Feb 2024The Conviction of a 21-year-old Woman
In a tragic turn of events, a 21-year-old woman in Northern Ireland has been convicted for terminating her pregnancy using abortion pills. This conviction makes her the first person to be convicted for illegal abortion in at least a decade. The woman pleaded guilty to 'unlawful procurement of miscarriage' under the Offences Against the Person Act of 1861 and was sentenced to a three-month jail term, suspended for two years.The Desperate Dilemma of Unwanted Pregnancies
This case brings to the forefront the desperate dilemma faced by women with unwanted pregnancies in Northern Ireland. Legal abortion is limited, forcing many women to resort to dangerous methods such as drinking bleach or throwing themselves down stairs. It is also common for women to travel all the way to England for a termination.
21歳の女性の有罪判決
悲劇的な出来事だが、北アイルランドの21歳の女性が中絶薬を使って妊娠を終了させた罪で有罪判決を受けた。この有罪判決により、違法な中絶で有罪判決を受けたのは少なくともこの10年間で初めてとなる。この女性は、1861年に制定された「人身に対する罪」に基づく「流産の不法調達」の罪を認め、2年間の執行猶予付きで3カ月の懲役を言い渡された。
望まない妊娠の絶望的なジレンマ
この事件は、北アイルランドで望まない妊娠をした女性が直面する絶望的なジレンマを前面に押し出している。合法的な中絶は限られており、多くの女性は漂白剤を飲んだり、階段から身を投げたりといった危険な方法に頼らざるを得ない。また、中絶のためにはるばるイギリスまで行く女性もよくいる。
Continued: https://medriva.com/health/northern-irelands-abortion-law-an-outdated-norm-or-a-necessary-protection
2024.1.15
Lack of action on State's abortion law shows 'political cowardice'
国の妊娠中絶法に対する措置の欠如は「政治的臆病さ」を示している
MON, 15 JAN, 2024
CIARA PHELAN, SENIOR CORRESPONDENTSocial Democrats leader Holly Cairns said it will be “cruel” and “political cowardice” if the Government decides against removing a three-day waiting period to access abortion services.
Ms Cairns has called on Government to deal with the recommendations from the final review into the State’s abortion law, authored by barrister Marie O’Shea, which recommends significant changes.
Continued: https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/politics/arid-41309473.html
2024.1.1
Free contraception provision expanded in Ireland
アイルランドで無料避妊提供拡大
BBC
Mon, January 1, 2024A scheme offering free contraception in the Republic of Ireland has been expanded. Since its launch in 2022, the programme has offered free contraception to women, girls and people who identify as transgender or non-binary.
Initially open to those aged 17 to 25, the scheme's age limit was increased last year to 30. From Monday, it is also open to women aged 31.
Continued: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/free-contraception-provision-expanded-ireland-084149291.html
2023.12.28
Blair told Mowlam to put abortion law reform ‘on ice’ 20 years before it was legalised in North
Prime minister’s private secretary wrote that Blair ‘sees little scope for bi-communal support for a change to the law’Seanín Graham
Thu Dec 28 2023Twenty years before abortion was legalised in Northern Ireland, British prime minister Tony Blair ordered Northern secretary Mo Mowlam to put her planned review of the restrictive law on terminations “on ice”.
北アイルランドで人工妊娠中絶が合法化される20年前、トニー・ブレア英首相は北アイルランドのモウラム長官に、人工妊娠中絶に関する制限的な法律の見直しを「凍結」するよう命じた
The Downing Street correspondence is contained in previously confidential files released this week in which Blair’s private secretary wrote that the “Prime Minister… sees little scope for bi-communal support for a change to the law and sees little advantage in embarking on a review.”
2023.12.18
Abortion: PSNI investigate safe access zone protest law breaches
妊娠中絶PSNIは安全アクセスゾーン抗議法違反を調査する
18th December 2023
By Elaine McGee, BBC News NIThe police are investigating up to 50 potential breaches of laws providing safe access zones (SAZs) outside abortion clinics in Northern Ireland. The zones came into effect in September at eight clinics in Northern Ireland.
More incidents were reported at Causeway Hospital in Coleraine than any other site, police figures show. That has prompted pro-choice campaigners and some local politicians to call for the zones to be extended by up to 250m (820ft).
Continued: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-67749785
