When you’re given that ballot paper, you might think of the 12 women who will be making that lonely journey to England that day
I felt as if I was voting for something that would truly matter, that would change Ireland for the better. And now, three years later, we are facing into another referendum.
Another referendum that has been deemed ‘controversial’ and generating ‘debate’, as if a human rights violations (as the United Nations has deemed Irish abortion laws to be) are something that should be debated. How else could you describe the Eighth Amendment but a violation? Its very existence in our constitution is putting every pregnant woman at risk, whether psychologically, as in the case of women who have given the devastating news that their baby has a fatal foetal abnormality and they are forced abroad when at their most vulnerable, or physically, sd when Savita Halappanavar died crying out for an abortion that would have saved her life.
