Readers Blog: Oireachtas needs mandate to change abortion law

In 1983, aged 21, I voted against the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution designed to ban abortion in Ireland. At the time, a crisis pregnancy was a very real possibility for me.

Readers Blog: Oireachtas needs mandate to change abortion law
Thu, 14 Dec, 2017 - 00:00

In 1983, aged 21, I voted against the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution designed to ban abortion in Ireland. At the time, a crisis pregnancy was a very real possibility for me.

Access to contraception in Cork was a real challenge. Modern methods like the morning after pill weren’t available.

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