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"Abortion has been a fact of Irish women's lives for centuries, just as it has been and continues to be for women elsewhere".
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"Abortion has been a fact of Irish women's lives for centuries, just as it has been and continues to be for women elsewhere" (The Abortion Papers Ireland, pg. 4) However, in Ireland the Constitution has held a scrupulous control over women's availability to abortion. Over the past fifteen years in particular, the Abortion debate has been paramount in this country. It is something that brings astonishment to fellow Europeans, along with the ongoing debate over the morning after pill. Contraception was banned in Ireland up until the 1960's, the women's movement brought it to the fore and following much controversy it is now it is widely available. Traditional ideologies and practices were challenged and the outcome was greater freedom of choice and liberation for women. It was a group referred to as the Irish Women's Liberation Movement whom emerged at the end of the 1960's that were responsible for objection openly...
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