Migrants and Ethnic-minorities for Reproductive Justice
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| Founded | 2017 |
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| Type | abortion access, anti-racism, grassroots activist group |
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| Website | merjireland |
Migrants and Ethnic Minorities for Reproductive Justice (MERJ) is an Irish grassroots advocacy organization that works on the issue of reproductive rights and reproductive justice among migrants, travellers as well as people of colour in Ireland. MERJ is a self-organised, non-hierarchical group of migrant women of colour whose engagement in abortion rights issues had always been central to Ireland. MERJ was founded in September, 2017. The group operates considering a wide intersectional framework, directly connecting the issue of reproductive justice and racial justice, migrant rights, housing rights, healthcare access, and its anti-direct provision. MERJ played a very critical role in the 2018 referendum campaign to repeal the 8th Amendment[1] of the Irish Constitution and continues to advocate for full access to reproductive healthcare services for every citizen of the country regardless of migration status, ethnicity or disability.
Migrants and Ethnic-minorities for Reproductive Justice (MERJ) was founded in 2017 as a voice for migrants, Travellers and people of colour affected by the restrictive access to abortion in Ireland as part of the wider Repeal the 8th campaign.[2][3] In particular, some migrants in Ireland could not travel for abortion services in the United Kingdom or Europe before the Eighth Amendment was repealed.[4][5]