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Standard Issue Podcast

SIM Ep 110 Doc 1 Part 2: Repealing the 8th

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

On May 25, Ireland votes on whether to allow women access to safe and legal abortions for the first time. In a special, two-part documentary, we look at the campaign to Repeal The 8th and talk to some of the women at the heart of it. About the current situation. About current attitudes. About the campaign's chances of success. And we ask what the future might hold for the women of Ireland and other countries where women are currently denied the right to reproductive care and rights over their own bodies. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

0:08.0

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the brain again.

0:15.0

Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Standard Issue for all women.

0:35.0

For all women.

0:36.0

On May the 25th, Ireland faces a momentous decision.

0:39.0

Is the country going to allow women access to safe and legal abortions for the first time

0:44.3

in its history. As people prepared to cast their vote in the nationwide referendum, we

0:49.2

talked to 14 women from the fields of law, medicine, academia, politics, education, the arts and

0:56.0

good old-fashioned campaigning about their work to repeal the eighth.

1:00.0

In the first part of this two episode special, we looked at the law as it currently stands in Ireland

1:04.4

and its repercussions for women.

1:06.4

In this second part we look at the campaign to repeal the 8th and its chances of success

1:10.4

as well as asking what the future might hold for the women of Ireland and other countries

1:14.1

where they are currently denied the right to reproductive care.

1:16.7

We're all about deeds as well as words at standard issue.

1:22.7

So in April, we got our offices on a plane

1:24.8

and went over to Dublin to find out how the referendum campaign is going.

1:28.3

Every vote will count in this referendum.

1:30.6

Don't believe us.

1:31.6

Let's take a look at some other referenda in recent Irish

1:33.9

history. Oh and unlike over here the results are legally binding. In May 2015 the

1:39.6

same-sex marriage referendum took place and the good guys won. Hooray! But that's certainly marriage now, not at all. Marriage equality passed by 61%.

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