Fidelma Healy Eames: Could you say to your children, 'We're lucky to have adopted you, your birth mothers chose life, but I voted for abortion'
Fidelma Healy Eames remembers her first day in the Seanad in 2007 well, and an encounter with a fellow female politician. “I walked in the gates of Leinster House,” she says, “and she said, on the very first day, ‘Are you ready for the next general election?’. I’d just arrived. But that’s the problem with politics, you’re never there. I’ve shifted now to my own way of looking at things. I’ve moved from achievement to fulfilment. I reall...
Source: independent.ie