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- ↑ "How This Woman Helps Hundreds of Pregnant Women in Ireland Access Safe, Legal Abortions". Cosmopolitan. 18 May 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
- ↑ "List of Advocacy Groups, Interest Groups, other Representative Organisations and Political Parties Submissions to the Citizens' Assembly on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution" (PDF). Citizens' Assembly. 12 January 2017.
- ↑ "Abortion Support Network: 'In a perfect world, our phone would never ring'". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
- ↑ "Pro-choice activists launch abortion initiative in Poland". The Guardian. Retrieved 2019-10-12.