When she was 17, Fabiana Mizzoni travelled with her mother Áine Maria to the UK having discovered that she was pregnant.
Fabiana Mizzoni talks about the moment she found out she was pregnant at the age of just 17, and the journey she was forced to take with her mother Áine Maria as a result of the 8th Amendment to the Irish Constitution.
Fabiana describes how she can’t remember a single moment of the journey towards the termination of her pregnancy, and her fear of anyone finding out she had been pregnant and had made the most difficult decision of her life.
“I remember going up for the procedure,” she says, “and there was maybe a girl my age there with her sister and I remember again just being so heartbroken that I couldn’t have one of my sisters there, or I felt I couldn’t have one of my sisters there.
“Again, it just made me feel very alone.
“I remember the months afterwards and how I felt then, but I just remember thinking, get on with it basically. And then later on just being quite devastated and felt it was my fault.
“I just thought I’d be humiliated. I thought everyone would be horrible, my sisters included, which looking back they obviously wouldn’t have been.”
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