When I was in first year in secondary school in 1997, a girl in the year
above me was pregnant. She was 14. The only people who I ever heard say
anything negative about her were a group of older girls who wore their tiny feet “pro-life” pins
on their uniforms with pride. They slagged her behind her back, and
said she would be a bad mother. They positioned themselves as the
morally superior ones who cared for the baby, but not the unmarried
mother. They are the remnants of an Ireland, a quasi-clerical fascist
state, that we’d like to believe is in the past, but still lingers on.
https://feministire.com/2014/06/03/no-country-for-young-women-honour-crimes-and-infanticide-in-ireland/
https://feministire.com/2014/06/03/no-country-for-young-women-honour-crimes-and-infanticide-in-ireland/
