Amnesty have disappeared our Repeal video

I was just writing about campaigning with Colm O’Gorman to Repeal The Eighth Amendment, the basis for Ireland’s once-draconian abortion laws, when I tried to find the video my wife and I did for them at the time. Many of you will remember that my wife bravely opened up about the pain she experienced over our first failed attempt to have a baby.

Well, here it is. Sorry the quality is so poor, but when I went to find the original I discovered they have disappeared it from their website. I guess bigots like me can’t experience tragedy, but why is my wife’s contribution to be erased along with mine?

It’s me calling you out for your misogynistic faith, Colm, me.

Not my ex-wife, not Jane Harris, me.

You only allow women to blink into life when you want to harass them, the rest of the time, you ensure they’re not even there. This is what your Amnesty tweeted at the moment when Irish women should have been celebrating their greatest victory over the Catholic Church.

Amnesty Ireland @AmnestyIreland

And it’s done. Now it’s time to legislate to respect protect and fulfill the human rights of pregnant people. #repealedThe8th

President of Ireland @PresidentIRL

In accordance with Article 46 of the Constitution, President Higgins today signed the Thirty-Sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018, and it has accordingly become law.

You disappeared the women at the centre of the fight just like you’ve now disappeared Helen.

Right side of history, my arse.