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People Before Profit and Anti-Austerity Alliance TDs Brid Smith, Ruth Coppinger, Richard Boyd Barrett and Paul Murphy outside Leinster House yesterday in support of  the AAA-PBP repeal bill (top)

Ahead of the debate on the AAA-PBP private members’ bill to repeal the 8th amendment this evening from 8pm, and a rally outside Leinster House at 5.30pm in relation to the same…

The Government has agreed to reject it, and it has released the following statement…

There are differing views within the Government on the substantive issue of the 8th Amendment of the Constitution.

The Government is moving this Reasoned Amendment because this Bill pre-empts the work of the Citizens’ Assembly, the agreed, independent process set out in the Programme for Partnership Government for dealing with this issue and approved by both the Dáil and Seanad.

The Citizens’ Assembly is currently deliberating on the 8th Amendment as its first topic and is expected to deliver its Report on the issue in the first half of 2017.

The Government will then immediately refer the Report to a Special Oireachtas Committee which will be asked to respond to the deliberations and recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly within six months.

The Government will today ask the Business Committee to set in train the preparatory work necessary for the establishment of this Committee, including its structure and work programme, in order that the Committee will be in a position to commence its work without delay once the Citizens’ Assembly delivers its Report on the 8th Amendment.

The Government will not adopt a collective policy position for the Committee deliberations and all Government deputies will be free to promote their own policy objectives during that process.

The Government has agreed that, when a decision is being made in the Dáil on the outcome of the Citizens’ Assembly and Special Oireachtas Committee processes, all members of the Government, and all deputies supporting the Government, will exercise their votes freely in accordance with their consciences.

Fine Gael also acknowledges, more generally, that its Independent colleagues in Government are not subject to a party whip and that, on matters which are not addressed either in the Programme for Partnership Government or by decisions of Cabinet, they will continue to exercise a free vote.

Reasoned Amendment

“Delete the words after “That” and substitute the following:

“Dáil Éireann declines to give the Bill a second reading in order that the Citizens’ Assembly, established by Resolutions of Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann, may conclude its deliberations on the 8th Amendment of the Constitution, which is the subject matter of this Bill, and report to the Oireachtas in the first half of 2017.”

Via Merrion Street

Coalition eyes countermotion to block abortion Bill (Irish Times)

Previously: Free Tomorrow?

Rollingnews

UPDATE:

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From the Labour Party.

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25/10/2016 Pictured are demonstrators at the Repeal the 8th protest outside the Dail in Dublin tonight, calling for the 8th Amendment on abortion to be repealed Photo: Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie

25/10/2016 Pictured are demonstrators at the Repeal the 8th protest outside the Dail in Dublin tonight, calling for the 8th Amendment on abortion to be repealed Photo: Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie

25/10/2016 Pictured are demonstrators at the Repeal the 8th protest outside the Dail in Dublin tonight, calling for the 8th Amendment on abortion to be repealed Photo: Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie

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This evening.

Scenes outside Leinster House where AAA/PBP TD Ruth Coppinger (pic 7)  and Nine month pregnant Helen Guinane (pic 5) of AIMS [Association For Improvement Of Maternity Services) call for a repeal of the Eighth Amendment.

Eamonn Farrell/Rollingnews

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Eoin O’Faogáin, writing in the Bogman’s Cannon, addresses the experiences of three generations of women in his family in relation to the church and women’s rights in Ireland.

On Saturday, over 25 thousand people across every imaginable demographic came out in Dublin to march for the right to bodily autonomy. They came out demand an end to a legislative legacy that deems 50% of our citizens as second-class and exports 4,000 women a year across the sea. They came out to reject the continued narrative of shame that exists around abortion. They came out to drag us into the 21st century.

The desperation in the tone of voice of the Catholic Church and its coalition of martyrs is obvious. It reached farcical levels during last year’s marriage equality campaign and continues today in the debate around the 8th amendment. A video published over the weekend makes direct comparisons between women accessing abortion and Hitler.

The arguments coming from the Sherlocks, the “Pro-Life” Campaign, IONA and Youth Defence are increasingly erratic. But of course they are.

These are institutions who have been afforded a lifetime of silent obedience. In that context, how frightening it must be to see public opinion turn away from you so sharply, so profoundly. How frightening it must be that people have found the courage to share their lived experiences and refuse to be shamed.

Repeal the Faith

Photo: Ellen Russell

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This afternoon.

Essex Street, Dublin 2.

Anna Cosgrave founder of the Repeal Project, a sweater-based campaign that uses “outwear to give a voice to a hidden problem in Ireland”, outside her jumper-stuffed pop-up store.

The Repeal jumpers are available to be purchased online [link below] or in the Repeal Project pop-up shop in Indigo & Cloth, East Essex Street in Temple Bar, Dublin 2, from today until Sunday, July 3.

Proceeds from every jumper sale will be donated to the Abortion Rights Campaign.

Goes lovely with crumpled chinos.

FIGHT!

The Repeal project

Leah Farrell/Rollingnews

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