The provision of abortion services in Ireland must be an-opt in service, writes Dr Maitiu O Tuathail.
“They’d be more nervous telling a doctor they don’t know. Oftentimes, they might say they’re miscarrying.”
“There is a risk when you buy anything from an unknown source that you simply do not know what you are getting.”
A 22-year-old critically ill pregnant woman, whose foetus has been given no chance of surviving, has been denied an abortion after judges rejected her lawyers’ appeal that the pregnancy was life-threatening.
The committee asked representatives if they located the clinic across from a train station to encourage women from the Republic to travel there for abortions.