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I'm going to be personally assisting with this, as I have before. It's vital that we are open about it at this point because @healthdpt & @RobinSwannMoH & @duponline have turned their backs on ppl who need abortions but we won't. More of my reasons in the thread below. https://twitter.com/All4Choice/status/1247222562620407809
B/c every single day since travel to England stopped @All4Choice has been contacted by ppl who are desperate. If you've never met someone who is pregnant & doesn't want to be or if you've never had that experience yourself, it might be hard to understand.
But there is honestly nothing like it. It's why bodily autonomy requires such respect. It's why ppl risk criminalisation to have control over their bodies. It's why @AbortionSupport exists, b/c the methods women & girls have used when they can't afford to travel are terrifying.
B/c I've sat in rooms and cried with women telling the story of unsafe abortion in backstreet clinics where sharp implements cause permanent damage, teenagers walking 20km back to their homes bleeding in the street, one lay in bed for a week until neighbours found her half dead.
I'm bound to these women forever and one thing we all agree on is that medical abortion with pills saves lives. I won't stand by and do nothing while politicians stigmatise it & deliberately deny access to ppl in NI.
I know some are saying we want to use covid-19 to push an agenda. I am writing this to say once and for all, this is purely about us being accountable to everyone who asks us for help, every woman who has thanked us for our work because she's been there herself.
And I have been there myself so I'm not going to stand by and let access to safe, legal abortion be withheld because of ideology. @All4Choice shouldn't have to provide this service but we will until @healthdpt do the right thing.
