Posts by Ella Whelan

A sea of thousands of umbrellas of women and men participating in a nationwide “Black Monday” strike to protest a legislative proposal for a total ban on abortion in downtown Castle Square is pictured in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Oct. 3, 2016. Massive protests were held in the rain in the streets of Warsaw, Gdansk, Wroclaw and elsewhere across the largely Catholic nation led by a conservative government. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

The More Things Change (the More They Stay the Same)

This year marks the 30th birthday of the internet—an invention that has come to characterize a gen...

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App-ropriate Contraception?

Just under 60 years ago, the contraceptive pill was made widely available to women in the Western wo...

People celebrate in Dublin Castle following the results of the referendum. © PA IMAGES / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO

An All-Ireland Win for Abortion Rights

On May 26, Ireland celebrated the news that its citizens had voted—by a landslide—to repeal the...

Photo courtesy of the Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment

The Democratic Case for Abortion in Ireland

Who is more trustworthy: the populace or the people they elect? The role of poli­ticians in a repre...