“Women with money can have abortions, and women without money have babies or—and I’m not fucking kidding—they drink bleach,” said Mara Clarke, the founder of the Abortion Support Network, an abortion fund that helps Irish women travel to England to safely terminate their pregnancies.

“Is it the flagrant contempt for women inherent in Irish abortion law that gave the discussion at Too Loud a Silence its edge?”

“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.”

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“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…