Last month, Ireland’s national referendum gave legal sanction to same-sex marriage, although for the most part this was called ‘gay marriage’ by the media. Now therein hangs a tale. Because everyone has forgotten, in a rush of progressive adrenaline, that last year, a young married woman dentist of Indian origin died of an incomplete abortion in Ireland. Doctors weren’t legally allowed to complete a process that had commenced naturally. How does the sanctioning of same-sex marriage speak to women’s rights around abortion in Ireland, if it does speak to it at all?