“Dozens of migrant women living in Ireland are unable to access abortions abroad as a result of “insurmountable” travel and legal obstacles, new figures indicate.”

What would you do if the condom broke? If the morning after pill wasn’t available? If you were pregnant as result of rape? If you found out your much-wanted pregnancy wouldn’t survive past birth? If you looked around at your life and realised you weren’t ready to be a parent? What if you lived in…

“We know many often give addresses of friends or sisters in the UK and not Ireland,” Mara Clarke of the Abortion Support Network says. She also adds there are “hundreds if not thousands” Irish women who buy medical abortion pills online, while many resort to “hugely dangerous” methods of forcing a miscarriage like “drinking bleach” or…

“The change in me was so profound.”

Outrage over Ireland’s abortion laws is nothing new, and the most recent case concerning what many call unworkable legislation this week triggered fresh protests worldwide. In London, more than 150 people gathered outside the Irish Embassy holding posters bearing slogans such as ‘I am not a vessel’ and ‘this brutality makes me ashamed to be Irish’.…

Abortion, while legal under extremely restrictive circumstances in both parts of Ireland—like if you can prove that birthing a baby will actively kill you—is virtually impossible to obtain in these countries.