When producer and correspondent Allana Harkin pitched her latest segment idea to the team at Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, she says eyebrows were raised. “Everyone’s looking at me like, ‘Allana, where’s the fun part,’” Harkin told Glamour. The pitch? To cover Ireland’s historic abortion referendum. “All I did was throw up my hands, like,…
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On Friday, voters in Ireland took to the polling stations to cast their ballots on whether the country should repeal the eighth amendment of its constitution, which effectively bans abortions. Results for the referendum started coming in on Saturday—by the afternoon, the final vote was at 66.4 percent for the repeal and 33.6 percent against—and…
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It’s official, and by a landslide: The people of Ireland have voted to repeal the eighth amendment of its constitution, which currently says an unborn child has an equal right to life as the woman carrying it, effectively placing a total ban on abortion. With 37 out of 40 constituencies reporting as this article was…
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Three years ago this week, I cried with joy as I sat in my New York apartment and watched the country I grew up in make joyous, beautiful, progressive history with a national referendum that ultimately allowed us to become the first country in the world to grant into law gay marriage. On Friday, May…
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The Trump Administration formally came out Friday in favor of cutting off federal family planning money to organizations that perform abortions or make referrals for them. The rule change affects Title X, the $260 million federal program which underwrites the costs of contraception, reproductive health services and STD screening for low-income and uninsured patients. The…
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“Are you still planning on doing abortions after you have your baby?” a colleague asked. I was visibly pregnant in my third trimester and pushing a patient to the operating room. I was surprised at the question; We were friends and most of my coworkers knew I became a doctor in order to provide abortion…
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