From top: Artist and activist Will St Leger’s art exhibition in from top: Donegal, Sligo and Mayo this week
Out Of The Shadows.
Is a six-day travelling exhibition by Will St Leger to highlight the number of women who travel out of the country for an abortion.
The exhibition, involving life-size silhouettes of women being place at bus stops, is being supported by the Abortion Rights Campaign and Amnesty International Ireland.
It will finish in Dublin this weekend – to coincide with the next meeting of the Citizens’ Assembly.
Will St Leger sez:
“Many women who travel to the UK for an abortion describe the journey as traumatic and upsetting. The Irish state and health service effectively turns its back on them, forcing them to bear the psychological, physical and financial burden alone. Women forced to travel feel sense of exclusion from their health care system, the stigma of traveling, and the burden of secrecy, shame and fear that comes with knowing they are doing something that is a criminal offence at home.
This project is designed to bring these women out of the shadows so that we can stand in solidarity with them.”
Travelling art exhibition highlights urgent need for reform of Ireland’s abortion laws (Amnesty)
There must be some women for whom it’s a great trip altogether, let’s hear their stories too.
Loathsome
I would have gone with “sinner” there.
Bless
Me
No father?
Fupp off, you mealy mouthed little tosspot.
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Sorry for being cranky mildred
Eamonn, I drink your salty tears of loneliness and self loathing. Surely there’s actual human people you can talk to for attention, rather than lashing out and screaming into the vaccuum?
I wouldn’t eat him let alone drink his salty tears.
Meat bound to be gristly , not corn-fed
It genuintely could be a decent trip for some. They could make a long weekend of it, visit some musems and do some shopping.
Yeah, that’s the spirit dear.
Abort child, recover from bleeding and pain, shop and do lunch, darling.
Don’t try to talk about things you can’t understand.
€300 for travel and accomodation £1500 for the procedure, £500 for shows and shoes… amirite?
Ugh, hateful, clueless antichoicers who get all their abortion “information” from Yank Defense and faux Institutes.
Genuine question here, does calling it an exhibition mean this its classed as art? Also why do people always highlight the things that are already highlighted.
Genuine question.
Why do loathsome self aggrandising buffoons post on this? Will the journal not have ye?
I don’t have a journal. And so the answer is no.
winner
Such nonsense.
Say abortion is fully legal and availabe in Ireland. The same women will still have to take a bus to have the foetus killed unless they start doing home abortions. There will still be a journey to take of quite possibly a good few hours. So pretty much the same situation we have now. What is this fixation on the actual journey taken with pro choicers.
If abortion is available in Ireland, women will travel no more than 3 hours to a city and be home, recuperating that evening. The current regime of Irish abortions is travel no more than 3 hours to a city, a couple of hours at the airport/port. An hour to 90 minutes on a plane or 3 hours on a boat then 6 hours on a bus or train. Bus/taxi/tube to the clinic to have the abortion, overnight accommodation if you can afford it, and then all that time and money spent travelling back. Home abortions will involve going to a local pharmacist, taking a couple of doses of hormones and having a heavy period before the end of the first trimester.
Antichoice demanding the pain and the physical, emotional and financial suffering for women who must be punished for having sex.
“women who must be punished for having sex.”
That’s exactly it. The Opus Dei youth and secret Catholics who never declare themselves in public.
Ah I see. Anything to put the poor women in their place and extend their hardship should be encouraged.
Cut it out!
Hah… see, cardboard.. cut.. o…
Nevermind.
Winner
annoying
Agreed
Constantly inane
Mornington Crescent
zing!
What about running pictures of the aborted foetuse’s