Abortion trauma is a myth. Irish women don’t need laws to make them ‘reflect’ on their choices – opinion

The debate in Ireland thus cannot be separated from a wider global political climate in which reproductive autonomy is increasingly being treated as socially destabilising and in need of policing. Across the US, a rollback of abortion rights has unfolded alongside escalating attacks on contraception access, sex education and trans rights, all under the language … Read more

Ireland’s Former Ban on Abortion is a Preview for Life in Post-Roe America

Abortion: The story of suffering and death behind Ireland’s ban and subsequent legalization , by Gretchen E. Ely, The Conversation In 2012, Savita Halappanavar, age 31 and 17 weeks pregnant, went to a hospital in Galway, Ireland. Doctors there determined that she was having a miscarriage. However, because the fetus still had a detectable heartbeat, … Read more