Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny supports the Irish law on abortion, which is enshrined in the country’s eighth constitutional amendment, and gives the same rights to a fetus as to its mother. ( CLODAGH KILCOYNE / REUTERS file photo )Over the weekend, two Irish women logged onto Twitter, boarded a plane and left their country in order to have an abortion. The women flew to Britain at dawn on Saturday morning, snapping pictures and sharing snippets of the desperation that forced their travel as they went. One wanted to exercise the right given to women in dozens of other countries, and one was a friend. “Two women, one procedure, 48 hours away from home,” the profile description for @TwoWomenTravel read, keeping the women nameless.

Source: thestar August 22, 2016 17:48 UTC