 Thousands of people in Ireland march on International Women's Day to raise awareness of the need for a referendum to repeal the Eighth Amendment. Universities across the country took part in organised marches around their campuses to show solidarity towards the movement. DCU demonstrated its involvement by hosting a walk out of class, a teach in in the Henry Gratton building and a vigil at the labyrinth on Glassneven campus. We asked DCU students why they decided to march. I'm basically marching to repeal the Eighth Amendment to pro-choice for abortion. I think a lot of people almost can't do the message and they think it's very aggressive but it's really just about giving everybody the equal opportunity to choose which way they'd like to take charge of their own body with regards to abortion. I think it's hugely important because today is International Women's Day and when we're talking about equality, women will never be free until we stop being vessels to our state. As soon as a woman becomes pregnant, she's seen as a vessel and nothing less. Women who need treatment for medical conditions can't receive those treatments. If you have cancer and you need chemotherapy, they won't give you chemotherapy until you have had your baby, regardless of the fact that cancer may kill you before you're able to undergo treatment. Little things like that. People think that abortion is just women who aren't looking after themselves, who aren't being responsible, who make these slip-in decisions to go across sea and undergo this harrowing journey to get the treatment that they need when really it affects everyone. I don't really have any sophisticated answer for that. I guess these are rights that women should have had years and years ago, if not forever, and it's silly that we still have to protest these things. It's silly that we have to protest just to have the right to vote on it. We're not even getting the vote yet, we just need the right to vote first. But hopefully this will make a difference and it's still nice to see everyone here supporting it and knowing there's other people with the same opinion, so it's nice. I'm marching today because women deserve to have a choice over their body. I mean, pregnancy, it's nine months, it's beer changes to their body and they shouldn't have to go through something if they don't want to and they should have a choice, which our country at the moment doesn't have. We have the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe and women just don't have a choice. We're sending 12 women a day to England. We're just moving our problems somewhere else and by restricting abortion we're not making it less, we're making it more dangerous for women. I'm Amy Lawlor, DCU TV News.