Opinion

I had an abortion at 22 – it was tragic, but curbing right to choose is worse

LAST week columnist Mercy Muroki wrote about her own experience of an unplanned pregnancy, after a Labour MP tabled an amendment to existing legislation to make abortion up to birth, and for any reason, legal. When I was 22, I had an abortion. I was very sick, with alcoholism, I didn’t know who the father was, I had no job and no money.