2 Irish Women Live Tweeted Their Trip to Britain to Get an Abortion

Two women took to Twitter over the weekend to document their voyage from Ireland to Britain to have an abortion. The women created an anonymous Twitter handle called TwoWomenTravel to speak out against Ireland's abortion ban. Of the two women, one needed an abortion and the other was a supportive friend, The Washington Post reports.

Ireland's Eighth Amendment equates the life of fetus to that of the mother.