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Nell McCafferty: The legal crucifixion of Joanne Hayes
Sedation, vilification, humiliation: Joanne Hayes’s public suffering was the anvil on which a modern Ireland was hammered out
Joanne Hayes had three pregnancies by her married lover Jeremiah Locke, already a father of two, in the early 1980s. The successful campaign to amend the Constitution and outlaw abortion in all circumstances took place between June 1981 and September 1983.
Joanne’s first pregnancy resulted in a miscarriage in June 1982. Her second pregnancy ...