Janet O'Sullivan
{{short description|Irish pro-choice campaigner}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
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|name = Janet O'Sullivan
|other_names = Janet Ní Shuilleabháin
|birth_date = {{Birth based on age as of date|41|2016|11|21}}
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|nationality = Irish
|known for = Pro-choice campaigning
|website = {{URL|http://janet.ie/}}
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Janet O'Sullivan is a pro-choice campaigner in Ireland. She is a former spokesperson for the Abortion Rights Campaign.{{cite news|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-SOWV7bb4o|date=22 September 2016|title=Abortion in Ireland|publisher=BBC World News}} She publishes under both the Irish version of her name, Janet Ní Shuilleabháin, and the English version Janet O'Sullivan.{{cite web|url=http://standardissuemagazine.com/author/josullivan/|title=Author Bio|publisher=Standard Issue Magazine|access-date=24 September 2016|archive-date=19 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519034146/http://standardissuemagazine.com/author/josullivan/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/author/janet-o-sullivan|publisher=Independent UK|title=UK Author Bio}} In 2016, the BBC included her in the list of 100 Women for "inspirational and influential women for 2016"{{cite web|publisher=BBC|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-38012048|title=BBC 100 Women 2016: Who's on the list|date=21 November 2016}}
Campaigning
O'Sullivan has been a pro-choice believer since the early 1990s, when the X Case made the news, and had an abortion herself a few years later.{{cite web|url=https://mic.com/articles/82271/woman-takes-over-ireland-twitter-account-and-tells-powerful-story-about-her-abortion#.jNLyXiy1g|title=Ireland Twitter Account abortion story|date=13 February 2014 }} As the spokesperson for the Abortion Rights Campaign, she has frequently written in national newspapers, and appeared on radio and TV about the abortion debate in Ireland.{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/life/insults-and-abuse-debate-that-divides-nation-like-no-other-34865898.html|newspaper=Irish Independent|title=Insults and abuse: debate that divides nation like no other|page=44|date=9 July 2016|accessdate=26 September 2016|first=John|last=Meagher}}
O'Sullivan is also a Bi-Visibility activist who has campaigned for Marriage Equality.{{cite web|url=http://anarchism.pageabode.com/andrewnflood/marriage-equality-critical-anarchism-dabf2015|title=Marriage Equality}}{{cite episode|series=Ireland AM|title=Dealing with bisexuality|url=http://www.tv3.ie/ireland_am_video.php?locID=1.65.74&video=75655|station=TV3|date=3 February 2016}}
= Referendum on the Eighth Amendment =
{{see also|Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland|Abortion in the Republic of Ireland|Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018}}
O'Sullivan was in favour of the repeal of the Eighth Amendment and is working towards the goal of repealing the amendment and introducing legislation both in Ireland and Northern Ireland which ensures that women have the right to choose.{{cite web|url=http://www.abortionrightscampaign.ie/about-arc/|title=Goals of the campaign|date=11 February 2013}} On April 3, 2018 she registered as a third party with SIPO, the Irish government ethics watchdog. She was the only individual person to register as a third party.{{cite web|title=Register of Third Parties|url=http://www.sipo.ie/en/Reports/Register-of-Third-Parties/|publisher=Standards in Public Office Commission|accessdate=17 April 2018|archive-date=28 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180528213717/http://www.sipo.ie/en/Reports/Register-of-Third-Parties/|url-status=dead}}
References
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Category:Irish abortion-rights activists
Category:Abortion in the Republic of Ireland
Category:Irish LGBTQ rights activists
Category:Irish women activists