“It’s 2013 And We Hear From Women Who’ve Drunk Bleach”

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“Mara Clarke [above] of Abortion Support Network, an England-based charity that provides emergency funding to women who need to travel out of the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland to obtain an abortion in a private clinic, says those she has helped have ranged from women raped by family members to girls as young as fourteen and middle-aged women who already have more children than they can look after. “I once got a call from a father whose 19-year-old daughter had been raped and was nine weeks pregnant. He had three other children, his wife had died and he had been on disability living allowance for five years. He was desperate for help. The public has no idea what’s going on. It’s 2013 and we hear from women who’ve drunk bleach and downed packets of birth control pills with gin.”

When will abortion become legal for women in Northern Ireland? (New Statesman)

Previously: Illegal Abortion In Ireland

Pic: Mara Clarke

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