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Rise and Repeal began at 12:12pm on March 8th, International Women’s Day, with a minutes silence for the 12 women a day who fly to the UK for abortions.<\/p>\n
The event was organized by the University of Limerick’s Feminist Society.<\/p>\n
“We are here at this bridge to support anyone who has gone to England for basic health care” said the feminist Society co-president Megan Thornton.<\/p>\n
The event description stated that the students would be standing in solidarity with the 12+ pregnant people who every day travel to the UK and Europe to access basic healthcare and the 5+ pregnant people who potentially face a 14-year prison sentence for accessing abortion pills online.<\/p>\n
“We cannot let this continue.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The feminist society estimates that around 50 students were in attendance.<\/p>\n “We are here on the bridge to support anyone who has gone to England for basic health care” Megan said at the event.<\/p>\n “We have the power of ordinary people… We have one chance.”<\/p>\n The co-presidents said we don’t know how long it would be until another chance to vote on the 8th amendment arose.<\/p>\n This comes after ULSU voted to be a pro-choice union at a recent AGM where the motion was passed with 171 votes in favour of taking a pro-choice stance with 71 in favour of ULSU remaining neutral.<\/p>\n The vote means that ULSU can actively campaign in favour of repealing the 8th<\/sup> amendment.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n After the event, co-president Edana Flynn said that: the AGM was only the start of what should be happening on the UL campus in terms of repeal.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe have a referendum coming up. We\u2019re one of the last universities taking a stance. You have to uphold that stance, and the stance was to actively campaign so that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do. We are actively campaigning to support a repeal of the 8th<\/sup> amendment, and that\u2019s what the demonstration today was all about.\u201d<\/p>\n The Feminist Society says that they plan on being more present on campus, such as setting up registering to vote drives, providing canvassing training.<\/p>\n They plan on “putting our hearts and souls into getting the 8th amendment repealed and hopefully getting students informed and engaged on the issue as much as possible until then.”<\/p>\n A referendum on the 8th<\/sup> amendment is due to be held in May.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.anfocal.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC00196-570x320.jpg\")
Co-president Edana Flynn said that everyone on campus needs to me made aware of Repeal, as the 8th<\/sup> amendment affects everyone.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.anfocal.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC00205-570x320.jpg\")
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