“My mum, her cousin, my granny – they’ve gone for 30 or 40 years and never told anyone,” Anna says. “If I’d known about my mum’s experience, maybe I could have told her, and maybe it wouldn’t have been such an ordeal. To have the moral support would have been great. But none of us…

Clarke is similarly adamant that the Abortion Support Network is not a campaigning organization, just a service provider. “We’re the Band-Aid,” she said. “Ireland needs to find the cure.”

If the campaign is a success, it would mean that women in the North would be able to have an abortion in Dublin – a timely, cost effective and less traumatic option of flying to England and staying in a hotel or buying illegal tablets from the internet and jeopardising their own health.

I had an abortion. That is one of many facts about me. Here, have some more: I have hazel eyes, I am an avid reader, I have a son and a daughter, I hate salt and vinegar crisps. None of those facts should define for you who I am as a person. None of those…

“We’ve been very fortunate, we haven’t had to turn people away due to lack of funding since 2012. But there are people we are not able to help – they can’t get visas in time, they can’t escape their abusive partners or they can’t find somebody to watch their kids.”

A United Nations committee of 18 independent experts has expressed concern about “highly restrictive” abortion laws in a report on Northern Ireland.

Claire, 25, found out she was expecting nine weeks into her pregnancy. A single mother, she felt it was not the right time to have a baby and flew to the UK with a friend. She had never left Ireland before, she tells TheJournal.ie. The journey would have been too expensive had she not received funding from…

“Our fervent hope is that the prosecution of the woman who obtained these pills , and the letter that has been signed by more than 200 people who have obtained these medicines leads to a loosening of Northern Ireland’s abortion law. At the very least, we hope the publicity both helps other women find out…

“We are pro-choice and pregnant, pro-choice and parents, pro-choice and grandparents, aunts, uncles, adoptive, step-, and foster parents. We are pro human rights for all people, and by default, pro-child, and pro-family.”