Medieval explanation on women’s rights over their own bodies

Suzanne Harrington talks all about explaining the 8th amendment to her daughter.

Driving along the N25 towards the Rosslare ferry in Co Wexford, we pass a slightly homemade looking billboard. 250,000 lives saved by the 8th, it says.

Daughter asks what this means. The 8th of what, she wonders. I explain. Back when I was your age, I tell her, there was a referendum — She knows what this means, having witnessed Britain hit itself over the head with Brexit — which wrote into the Irish constitution the right to life of embryos.