Repeal Ireland’s Eighth Amendment: Getting an Abortion Shouldn’t Be This Hard

Some women, not only in the United States, have to travel hundreds or thousands of miles just to access abortion care. This poem details one woman’s journey from Ireland to England to receive health care. As she explains, “We have to change the laws of this stubborn nation, because our bodies are ours. We are not cowards, unlike those in power who refuse to listen when we say we are no longer willing to pay the price with our bodies. We’re not objects or commodities. Repeal the Eighth [Amendment from the Ireland Constitution], for women’s sake. It shouldn’t be this hard.”