Ireland: Citizens Assembly Hears Abortion Travel Stats

Citizens Assembly Hears Abortion Travel Stats

04 February 2017

The Citizens' Assembly has heard that almost three and a half thousand irish women travelled from this coungry to England or Wales for an abortion in 2015.

A consultant in fetal medicine from Birmingham's Women and Children Hospital says that 135 of these were seeking a termination due to a fetal anomaly.

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Source, FM104: https://www.fm104.ie/news/citizens-assembly-hears-abortion-travel-stats/