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In Living Memory 11am, Radio 4 ****
Selling any form of contraceptive was long illegal in the Irish Republic. Offenders faced a fine, condemnation from the pulpit, and imprisonment. Married women were doomed to years of pregnancy and childbirth, and many died under the strain. In the first of a new series, Chris Ledgard tells the story of a group of women who, in 1971, took the risk of openly bringing contraceptives from Belfast into Dublin.See the full content of this document
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