My abortion in 1988 was a lesson in care and resistance

Abortion in England in the Eighties was legal, if not easy to access. For the two Irish women in the clinic with me, it was a different story.

by Lyndsey Stonebridge for The New Statesman

(Protesters in London in 1980. Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

‘Following the leak of a draft US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe vs Wade, the ruling that guaranteed the right to an abortion, many women looked to history for lessons in defiance. As the writer Lola Olufemi reminded us, feminist networks have always been there to help “the next person” who needs an abortion, and “we have never been passive in the face of states that want us dead”. She was damn right to do so. Resistance begins with mutual care, as the women I shared my own abortion with in 1988 taught me...’

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