Irish Woman Live-Tweets Her Trip To Obtain A Legal Abortion

Every year, thousands of women from Ireland travel to England or Wales to get an abortion. The procedure is illegal in their country. On Saturday, one of those women live-tweeted the entire experience directly at Ireland Prime Minister Enda Kenny.

The woman and her friend formed a Twitter account, TwoWomenTravel, specifically to document the trip. Their posts stressed the time commitment, financial burden, and overall stress the trip had on both of them. In most posts, they tagged Kenny’s Twitter handle to guarantee his attention.

“We wanted to share the very ordinariness of the situation — we wanted to show it for what it is,” the women write in one tweet. “We had to travel because our government insists that we pretend this isn’t happening.”...
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