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© Kasia Strek / ITEM
In a post delivery ward of Fabella hospital women are advised to stay no longer than 24 hours, unless it is needed otherwise.The hospital managed to cut down by a half the number of daily deliveries concentrating mostly on complicated cases, but there is still no place for everyone. Sometimes even 4 women will share one bed and due to the lack of sufficient number of nurses or midwifes, more experienced mothers will advise newcomers on breastfeeding and caring for they newborns. Manila, Philippines, April 2017

The Price of Choice

September 3, 2019 Documentary/Photojournalism
© Jacobia Dahm
Isabel, 32, Dublin: Voting Yes. I’m voting Yes because from reading and listening to women’s stories, I think the situation as it is now is causing suffering and adding trauma to already difficult situations. I’ve done some campaigning and I know there are a lot of undecided people who are genuinely torn. It’s not an easy issue at all but I think it’s something the country has to face up to. © Jacobia Dahm

Photographing the High Stakes of Ireland’s Abortio...

August 17, 2018 Portraits/Portraiture
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