Distraught, she shared the news with her social workers and said she needed to travel to Britain from Ireland for an abortion. “He told me that if I did leave the country to go and have an abortion that I would be done for murder. Abortion was illegal and so, it seemed, was any attempt to procure an abortion abroad. This and other controversial cases loosened the Catholic church’s sway over public opinion, paving the way for a social revolution that brought abortion rights to Ireland last year. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Celebrations in Belfast at the changes to the law in Northern Ireland on abortion and same-sex marriage.

Source: The Guardian December 05, 2019 06:00 UTC