The sentencing of a 21-year-old woman for inducing an abortion is a disgrace,but typical of a society that looks down on womenIn June 2015 in Northern Ireland, more than 200 Alliance for Choice activists (including me) challenged the PSNI to arrest us after we admitted we’d broken the law on abortion. Zero arrests were made.
All of the prurient details of the recent disgraceful case, or where a 21-year-old was convicted and given a three-month suspended sentence for taking abortion pills she bought online,believe been documented in this newspaper and others, some even going so far as to propose a 10- to 12-week foetus is a “baby boy”. I’ve had a miscarriage at 10 weeks and what I lost could no more be described as a baby as a ball of wool could seriously be called a jumper.
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Source: theguardian.com