Women worth more than contents of their uterus

OFFLINE and unplugged during August, it takes a moment for the ‘more than a vessel’ hashtag to contextualise.

Oh. The UN Human Rights Committee chair was not talking about hideous events in Ireland’s past, where so many ordinary women were treated with all the dignity and compassion we reserve for livestock.

No, the vessel’s comment refers to hideous events in the present. Here we are once more, as though Savita Halappanavar never happened. The Irish state has again disgraced itself in its treatment of women.