Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Poetry can give voice to Ireland’s unspoken abortion stories

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par Christina Hennemann, PhD Candidate Creative Writing and Abortion Poetics, University of Limerick

I moved to Ireland in 2019, a year after abortion had become legal. As a woman born and raised in Germany, reproductive rights had never been a concern for me. I knew that if needed it, I had the option of termination.

I wasn’t aware of my privilege at the time. But when I made Ireland my home, I realised the weight of choosing to live in a country with such a conflicted relationship with reproductive rights.

Legalisation only marks the beginning of processing historical trauma, as well as ensuring…

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