Research Project number 5, the CPA. (The Handmaids Tale)

national | rights, freedoms and repression | other press Thursday June 08, 2006 13:28 by Chris Murray - The unmanageables

'Assessing the Goodness of Fit'

Research project no 6; 'Understanding how Sexually Active Women think about Fertility, Sex and Motherhood'
(Jo murphy -Lawless, Laury Oakes and Clare Brady)

Research Project no 15;' Concealed Pregnancy; A case Study Approach from an Irish Setting' Catherine Conlon.
The CPA was set up by statutory implement in 2001. It is a planning and co-ordinating body
established to formulate and implement a strategy to address the issue of crisis pregnancy thru:

a). A reduction in the number of crisis pregnancies by the provision of
education, advice and contraception. (whoops,tools of the devil there, banned in Poland during the recent holy visit).

b).A reduction in the number of women who opt for abortion by
(listen) offering services and supports which make other options more attractive. (These options , not defined, but possibly include
Glossy magazine covers of smiling celebrities with babies, glossy magazine covers of celebrities who will abstain until their wedding day, attractive consumer options such as a bridal mag and the what to do list for the wedding, the where to go list. A full and explanatory
leaflet on the rhythmn method, a glossy mag full of smiling babies).
Nine months and one day after the honeymoon......

c). The provision of counselling/medical services after crisis pregnancy.

Cura provided one of these 'Positive Options'.

Funding row ongoing for a year now-

The CPA is funded in it's entirety by the Dept of Health and Children.

Its board comprises Olive Braiden (Chair,and Chair of the Art's Council (check out the Arts act 2003).
Peter Finnegan , managing director of Communique intl (google it).
a few social workers, head civil servants from Justice , Equality and Law Reform and one from Education.
Farrell Grant (bright) Spark Consulting provide consultancy (harder to Google, but linked into Ithaca Media, ECM and learn for Good).

On the commission list june 2005; 1. measuring the degree to which funded projects 'fit' with the 3 mandates of the agency.

A commissioned report to 'understand' How Sexually Active Women Think about Fertility, Sex and Motherhood'

This last week has seen the most repressive laws on sexual activity in this country , section 5 of the Criminal Law (sexual Offences)2006:
An answer to a question no-one asked and nothing to do with the Mister A case.

A Gov agency reducing choice in the event of crisis pregnancy.
As Michael himself said " black lies".
There are reports commissioned also on teenage sexual activity.
The CPA is mandated to reduce the number of women who opt for abortion by offering services
and supports which make other options more attractive. ((3) Strategy of CPA)
Does this include reducing the places that young women can go to learn about all their options.
Or by creating a societal scenario wherein a young woman is criminalised for giving
her boyfriend a blow-job, but not for full penetrative sex.
By putting her on the stand to explain her clothing and behaviour the night she was raped
or quite simply by interfering in private choice by isolating her socially . Who mandated the state
to interfere in your sex-life today?