“They said ‘you need to go abroad’, they said they couldn’t look after me ... I was left wishing that we’d had a worse-off diagnosis”
Irish woman details having to travel to England for a termination for medical reasons https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/health/i-thought-wed-be-safe-and-looked-after-herebut-we-werent-woman-forced-to-go-to-england-for-termination-39722831.html">https://m.independent.ie/irish-new...
Irish woman details having to travel to England for a termination for medical reasons https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/health/i-thought-wed-be-safe-and-looked-after-herebut-we-werent-woman-forced-to-go-to-england-for-termination-39722831.html">https://m.independent.ie/irish-new...
A lot went wrong in terms of how this woman was cared for by her Irish hospital. Even if you were to put all that aside, I can’t understand how Irish hospitals aren’t able to be more helpful in this situation post repeal:
. @LeanbhMoChroi has warned that it’s seeing a number of cases like this one, and that the difficulty of them was exacerbated by maternity hospital restrictions which are in place during Covid-19