My Response

Dear Editor
I hold one of the accounts blocked by the Repeal_Shield. I see that the administrators have charged that the 8,000
accounts blocked 'have been abusive, have spread misinformation about repeal or abortion, or have engaged in consistent
trolling of pro-choice accounts.'
I trained as a nurse, midwife and public health nurse in Ireland and the UK and worked in Ireland for 20 years. When the
repeal movement began to take off, and questions began to be asked about pregnancy and birth, I thought my knowledge
would be useful. But I was in for a shock. Instead of welcoming information, many repealers were hostile. I was called a
Liar more times than I can count, a Fraud, a Plastic Paddy, (funny) a Fake Nurse, and worse!
All I was doing was sharing my knowledge and experiences during my 40-year career in healthcare, some of them around
abortion in the UK and later, here in the USA, where I live in a State which NARAL give an A grade to. I was never
abusive, never called anybody names. I never spread misinformation, and I have never 'trolled'. The problem I found
though, is that if you contradict the repeal side, they call that trolling.
Name, etc