afunnyfeminist:pro-abortion-rights:ihoema:suaimhneascroi:refinery29:Ireland is the only country in E
afunnyfeminist:pro-abortion-rights:ihoema:suaimhneascroi:refinery29:Ireland is the only country in Europe without legal accessible abortion. Now a woman has been sentenced to jail for self-induced abortionTwo years ago a 21-year-old woman used drugs she bought on the internet to self-induce an abortion when she couldn’t get one legally. Her roommates turned her in. Here’s what happened (are you listening, Donald Trump fans?)Gifs: VICE NewsUntil very recently you literally couldn’t get an abortion in Ireland to save your life. TO SAVE YOUR LIFE. Literally, not figuratively, literally. Women have died from entirely preventable situations, it’s been alleged that at least one woman was denied cancer treatment because she was pregnant and after one woman sadly passed away, her dead body was used as an incubator for her unborn child against the wishes of her entire family. Disgraceful.A woman died in 2012 after being denied removal of a septic foetus because it still had a heartbeat. 2012.Sheila Hodgers (1956-1983) was denied cancer treatment due to her pregnancy and died in agonizing pain shortly after giving birth (the child died immediately after birth). An unnamed woman in Ireland was declared brain-dead on December 3, 2014 but the hospital refused to turn off her life support because she was pregnant. It took a court determination that the fetus at 18 weeks of gestation had minimum chance of survival before the woman was taken off life support on December 27, 2012.Savita Halappamavar (1981-2012) was suffering a miscarriage of her wanted first pregnancy. When told the fetus could not be saved she repeatedly requested an abortion, only to be told she could not get one because there was still a fetal heartbeat. She died of septicemia after delivering a stillborn baby.For some reason, anti-choicers are nowhere to be found on posts like this. -- source link