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We are pointing fingers at America but our own house is certainly not in order (Picture: Hulu) A couple of weeks ago Twitter was alight with rightful disgust and despair as the US rolled back reproductive rights in several states. It would seem that America is currently being run by men who think the case of Roe vs Wade was a tennis match, including Alabama, Georgia and most recently Misogyny…sorry, spelling typo – Missouri. The latter is making women have a pelvic exam if they are having a medical abortion, which TV host Rachel Maddow described on her show as ‘state sanctioned rape’. When the news broke, I felt desperately sad and upset for my American sisters who are being denied basic bodily autonomy, and noticed a huge amount of people from the UK commenting and sharing these stories. London Mayor Sadiq Khan even sent a video message to US President Donald Trump condemning the actions of US States who are crushing women’s rights. The video was great, but I felt frustrated that he wasn’t also using his massive platform to speak up for the women of Northern Ireland. We are pointing fingers at America but our own house is certainly not in order. Things are looking more than a little like Republic Of Gilead in The Handmaid’s Tale. I had an abortion when I was 17. I was a baby myself and on the pill, and had gone on it at 14 to control my awful periods. Somehow I had still gotten pregnant and I paid for my own termination. Back then, it cost about £350 and cost a hell of a lot more in mental health. I don’t regret that decision though – I didn’t want a child and neither did my boyfriend at the time. He went to prison a couple of years later. I’m keen to know where the pro-lifers would have been then? There is an irony to Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party Arlene Foster’s insistence that Northern Ireland be treated equally when it comes to Brexit negotiations, yet she refuses to treat her own female citizens as equals who deserve bodily autonomy. Would they have been waiting with open arms to take in my child and support it? Would they have viewed that kid as another statistic with a criminal father? Their fascination with life seems to end the minute that a woman gives birth. My situation was tame compared to what so many women in Northern Ireland are going through at the moment. More than 1,000 women travelled to the UK last year to have terminations – a right they are currently denied in their home country. Some examples include a 19-year-old woman who was given a three-month suspended prison sentence for buying abortion pills online. A mother was prosecuted for procuring the same pills for her 15-year-old daughter. There is an irony to Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party Arlene Foster’s insistence that Northern Ireland be treated equally when it comes to Brexit negotiations, yet she refuses to treat her own female citizens as equals who deserve bodily autonomy. She was incensed when the Repeal vote was passed in Ireland and people danced in the streets of Belfast. ‘It’s not an issue that should have people taking to the streets in celebration,’ she said. Maybe Arlene never has to worry about such things and her personality is contraceptive enough. They were celebrating because women died to get this law repealed and because the only person who should have a say about a woman’s body is the woman in charge of it. Savita Halappanavar was collateral damage in the war on Irish women’s wombs. She died in Galway from septicaemia (blood poisoning) when the hospital refused to abort her pregnancy during a miscarriage. She was 31 years old. So, Arlene, the women of Ireland cheered because their daughters, sisters, mothers and cousins didn’t have to die anymore. Their nieces and best friends didn’t have to go to prison to have the same rights as the UK. They cheered at women not having to carry their rapist’s baby or be forced to give birth to a child who was the result of incest. Their wombs were not dragging them like fleshy anchors into servitude, destitution and death. So they cheered Arlene, because whether you like it or not abortions will happen. You are just making it less safe for women. I don’t understand how you can have that on your conscious. And as for Theresa May, I implore her to do the right thing before she steps down. Otherwise her ‘This is what a feminist looks like’ t-shirt should be put in a bin fire. Also, if you are reading this and you are anti-abortion then great – don’t have one. Don’t stand in the way of a women’s rights to make that choice, because you are literally killing them. In order to channel my fury into something constructive I have decided to put together a fundraising benefit. More: Theresa May Northern Ireland? More like Republic of Gilead when it comes to abortion rights Who can vote in the Tory leadership election? Jeremy Hunt’s claim he’s never broken the law is not true On 5 July, I will be hosting ‘Stand Up For Reproductive Rights’ alongside The London Irish Abortion Rights Campaign. The bill includes awesome people such as Katherine Ryan, Rob Delaney, Tara Flynn, Nish Kumar, Eleanor Tiernan, Alison Spittle and Sindhu Vee, and the funds will go to All 4 Choice in Northern Ireland and Abortion Support Network. Since I’ve announced this event there have been calls from some anti-choice groups to boycott my Edinburgh show, which is obviously devastating for me. I’m gutted that some people who never planned to attend in the first place might boycott it. I will say this though, if you haven’t stood up for reproductive rights then it’s time to. Add your voice to the fight because one in three women in the UK will have a termination by the time they are 35. We are the one in three. You love someone who has been there. See Tiff at Stand Up For Reproductive Rights at the Bloomsbury Theatre on 5 July and at Edinburgh Fringe at Monkey Barrell with her show Mother from 31 July to 25 August. MORE: More than 1,000 women travelled from Northern Ireland for abortions last year MORE: Unless you’re part of the abortion club, you don’t get a say MORE: It’s okay not to want to talk about your abortion
