How much has really changed for women’s sexual and reproductive rights in 40 years?

As the Catholic Church reaffirms its teaching that contraception is immoral, and preparations begin for the Citizens Assembly to review of the legal ban on abortion, Caroline O’Doherty meets the couple who won a landmark legal case for women’s sexual and reproductive rights in the Irish Supreme Court and who now wonder how much has really changed in the 40 years since.

THE dates are indelibly marked on May McGee’s memory.

December 15, 1968, she became a mother for the first time with the birth of baby Martin; January 2, 1970, her second child, Gerard, was born; November 15, 1970, the arrival of the twins, Sharon and Sylvia.