{"id":3899,"date":"2026-05-26T14:50:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=3899"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:50:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:50:29","slug":"abortion-trauma-is-a-myth-irish-women-dont-need-laws-to-make-them-reflect-on-their-choices-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/abortion-trauma-is-a-myth-irish-women-dont-need-laws-to-make-them-reflect-on-their-choices-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion trauma is a myth. Irish women don’t need laws to make them ‘reflect’ on their choices – opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a> has unfolded alongside escalating attacks on contraception access, sex education and trans rights<\/a>, all under the language of \u201cprotection\u201d, \u201cfamily values\u201d and concern for long-term wellbeing. At the same time, a growing pronatalist movement<\/a> \u2013 fuelled by anxiety around falling birthrates, demographic panic and deeply conservative ideas about gender \u2013 increasingly frames women\u2019s independence, queer lives and reproductive choice as cultural threats.<\/p>\n

Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[256,786,790,398,789,16,572,788,441,787],"class_list":["post-3899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion-access","tag-abortion-trauma","tag-anti-abortion-narratives","tag-bodily-autonomy","tag-contraception-access","tag-ireland","tag-pronatalists","tag-regret","tag-traditional-families","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3900,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions\/3900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}