Irish Women Tweet Menstrual Details to PM in Abortion Protest

Irish women are tweeting details of their menstrual cycles to Prime Minister Enda Kenny to call for a repeal to the country's restrictive abortion laws. Abortion is socially divisive in Ireland where, amid large street protests from both sides of the fraught debate, a complete ban was only lifted in 2013 when terminations were allowed if a mother's life was in danger. After Ireland became the first country to adopt gay marriage via a popular vote this year, marking a major...

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