Why should a woman have to be brave to admit to having an abortion?

“Period arrived! That was a long week of OTC pregnancy tests and obsessively checking the times of the boat to England.” I tweeted that yesterday.

Depending on your point of view, you will either find it hilarious, utterly inappropriate, or a damning indictment of archaic laws that force 12 women a day to leave this country to terminate an unwanted or unviable pregnancy.

For more gems such as these, you can find me on Twitter at @oneilllo (repeat the “l” three times, please. There’s a very patient man in Seattle called Orlando O’Neill who is becoming weary of being congratulated on his “blistering feminist literature”).