Anti-abortion laws and radicalization

If the U.S. Supreme Court re-bans abortion, they will certainly unleash mass protests on a scale that the U.S. has not seen before, just like in Ireland and Poland.

Argentinians, pictured protesting for abortion to be legal in March 2019, again returned to the streets last week to celebrate after the country’s lower house of Congress passed a government-backed bill to legalize abortion. Photograph courtesy of Wikipedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

December 14, 2020

“Get your rosaries off our ovaries,” chanted the women marching in support of the referendum that made abortion legal in Ireland in 2018. Two years later the 2020 election broke the century-long stranglehold on power of the two centre-right parties, Fianna Fáil an...

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