Irish voices raised for choice on abortion | Letters

Alison Hackett on why she will be joining Saturday’s March for Choice in DublinWhen women have no access to abortion their lives are in danger (Emer O’Toole, 28 September); when women have some access to abortion (within a legal framework) they live in a safer world. I recommend Mike Leigh’s film Vera Drake, set in the 1950s. Abortion was available to women of means (doctors called it something else). Women at the bottom of the pile – destitute, sex workers, teenagers, ra