Shush now and don’t be making a fuss

I once received a card of a cartoon stick man standing on top of a flattened cartoon stick woman.

“Oh dear,” said the stick man’s speech bubble. “I seem to have trodden on a woman. Hope it doesn’t leave a mess on my shoe.”

Which seems to sum up Ireland’s attitude to women’s reproductive health right now. I was lucky enough to have my cervical cancer correctly diagnosed, which means I am still alive today, and my kids aren’t orphans.