You may recall the controversy earlier this year relating to the HSE using the meaningless term ‘anyone with a cervix’ instead of ‘woman’ in its cervical screening literature. The National Screen Service Communications Working Group is now reviewing the language used – if you think the word ‘woman’ should be reinstated, please email info@cervicalcheck.ie before Monday.

This is a slightly updated version of an article by Gráinne Mhaol that appeared originally on the Socialist Democracy (Ireland) website.

Yesterday saw the newly-formed grassroots political campaign The Countess Didn’t Fight For This protest outside the Dail, unfurling a banner stating that ‘Women Will Not Be Erased In Language Or In Law’. The banner references recent controversies involving the HSE’s use of so-called ‘inclusive’ language on its cervical screening information literature and the presence...