“May McGee showed how unloving, how remorseless, how rigid the law was and the disproportionate effect it had on working-class women.” In 1973, a 27-year-old woman and her husband brought a case to the Supreme Court that managed to overturn Ireland’s archaic ban on contraception. May McGee had given birth to four children in Co […]
“May McGee showed how unloving, how remorseless, how rigid the law was and the disproportionate effect it had on working-class women.” In 1973, a 27-year-old woman and her husband brought a case to the Supreme Court that managed to overturn Ireland’s archaic ban on contraception. May McGee had given birth to four children in Co […]
7 years ago