#repealtheeighth

First final result in, and all numbers coming in around the country are showing a landslide. It’s looking like only a single constituency, Donegal, has voted no and the pro-life campaign have already conceded defeat. Voter turnout the highest in twenty years.

Termination isn't the only choice taken away by the Eighth. Even those of us who are ready and willing and wanting to have children, even those of us fortunate enough to have healthy pregnancies and foetuses, are affected.

I can't vote on the 25th; despite having lived here since August 2011, I won't be eligible for citizenship until next February. My lack of citizenship hasn't lessened the impact of the 8th on me, but I don't have a voice here.

If YOU have a voice, however you vote, please remember this: you're not just voting for yourself. You're making a choice, one that will affect the choices (or lack thereof) of every uterus-bearing human you know, of every person in love with a uterus-bearing human, and of their children, wanted or not. You're making a choice about our choices, and not just the one about whether or not we become parents.