Roe v Wade

Seána Glennon: Ireland’s past paints a bleak picture for America’s future on abortion rights

The likely unravelling of the historic Roe v Wade decision by the US Supreme Court means women there will face traumas all too familiar here

‘For a glimpse of a future in which lawmakers are unwilling or unable to provide for safe abortion access, and in which the judiciary places unborn life on a higher constitutional plain than the lives of women, America need look no further than Ireland.’ Picture: Getty