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The Abortion Pill Bus, which will carry abortion pills, currently not legally available in Ireland, will be in Galway city tomorrow [Friday October 23]  to raise issues of reproductive rights and the repeal of the controversial 8th Ammendment of the constitution.

Cura Galway will host an information evening in Bia Blasta Cafe, Carraroe, next Tuesday April 28 from 6.30pm-8.30pm.

A minimum of three Galway women travel to England or Wales for an abortion every week, according to official figures from the UK Department of Health.

Galway For Life, the local pro life organisation, has called

Gabriel Weston is a woman of many professional pursuits, between being a practicing surgeon, an accomplished writer, and a BBC presenter.

Lecturer and researcher Dr Pauline Conroy is to deliver a talk on reproductive rights, called Abortion - Outside the Jurisdiction, in the Welcome Inn Hotel, Castlebar, tomorrow (Saturday) at 2pm.

Article 40.3.3 of the Constitution must be repealed if women in Ireland are to have proper reproductive rights, protection for their health and well-being, and the right to choose parenting, adoption, or abortion.

Almost 140 Galway women travelled to Britain last year to have an abortion, according to statistics published by the British Department of Health.

It is with some trepidation that politicians read the Grassroots column in the Galway Advertiser. Having escaped its wrath for the past six years, there was a sense of inevitability when my own political travails finally came into the firing line of the column here last week.

On Tuesday evening the Dail voted at second stage on the Protection of Life in Pregnancy Bill (2013). As expected four of our Fine Gael TDs (Peter Matthews, Brian Walsh, Billy Timmins and Terence Flanagan) very courageously voted against the Bill. Next week, I, too will vote against the abortion bill. More FG colleagues are expected to follow in the coming days.