Sarah Harte: The pill was illegal for single women when Jennifer Carroll MacNeill was born — how far we've come

The distance between the locked doors of the mother and baby homes and the increased access to contraception today is the measure of how profoundly this country has changed. Amen to that

Health minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has described the legislation that allows women to have their prescriptions for the pill renewed by their pharmacist as 'a fantastic thing for expanding women's health'. Picture: Sam Boal/Collins 

Sex was never the problem. Our refusal to grow up about it was.

Few policy changes capture Ireland’s profound change in how we think about sex more than the liberalisation of access to contraception. It’s emblematic of a seismic cultural transformation.