Posted on 12/18/2014 3:32:49 PM PST by Morgana
SOCIALIST TD RUTH Coppinger says she’s helped “around two dozen” women access abortion pills advertised online in recent months.
The Dublin West deputy said there had been an upswing in awareness of the drugs since she and other pro-choice campaigners took part in a stunt at the end of October — travelling from Belfast by train, and bringing back the pills, which are not available in the Republic.
Coppinger and other activists swallowed the pills on their return to Connolly Station (below).
arlier in October, an RTÉ investigation revealed that the number of seizures of the pills had more than doubled in the first ten months of the year, with more than 1,000 tablets found.
“A lot of women saw the abortion train back in October — they would have contacted me and they would have contacted other groups,” Coppinger said.
I helped them order pills from Women on Web.
They are “generally working class women” she said, who “under no circumstances would have been able to pay to travel to Britain and to pay for accommodation”.
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TD = Teachta Dál, in case you were wondering, equivalent of MP in the UK.
Thank you I was. Not up on all thing Irish as I should be I guess.
Couldn’t she be arrested for the illegal importation of contraband substances.
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