lazy-harlot:queenregine:refinery29:Ireland is the only country in Europe without legal accessible ab
lazy-harlot:queenregine: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 Newsother important stories: Savita Halappanavar, who died in a hospital in Galway from sepsis after being refused help when she was miscarryingthe unnamed woman who died after a botched abortion in the back of a taxi in London (she had travelled to the UK after being refused help back home in Ireland)the clinically dead pregnant woman kept alive in an attempt to “protect” the fetusSheila Hodgers, who died an agonising death (along with her baby) after being refused cancer treatment due to her pregnancyMs. Y, who was forced to give birth to her rapist’s child and was arrested in the UK for attempting to travel there for an abortionno one cares about this, no one talks about this. it breaks my heart.This needs to stop. Women are dying because people put the life of something that needs us to survive above our own lives. -- source link