Thank you, Leo, for prioritising women

Thank you, Leo Varadkar. Thank you for acknowledging that abortion has always existed in Ireland.

Thank you for talking about the sad, lonely, frightening, and unncescessary journeys made by thousands of Irish women every year, because we have treated abortion the same as every other Irish problem: pretending it doesn’t exist.

We are brilliant at that. We are world leaders at pretending things don’t exist. Ask the ghost of Ann Lovett.