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Why are some women still travelling overseas for abortions?
Published 3 years, 11 months ago
Description
In 2019, at fourteen weeks pregnant, Emma Connors was told that her unborn baby had a fatal foetal abnormality. Just a few weeks later, she and her husband were on a plane to England to terminate the pregnancy.
Despite abortion legislation being introduced in Ireland in 2019, Emma is one of the hundreds of women still forced to travel to the UK to access termination services every year. Today she shares her story. Conor Pope also speaks to Social Affairs correspondent Kitty Holland to find out about the latest HSE report which says the legislation “falls short” of women’s needs and has a “chilling” effect on clinicians.
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