Ellen Coyne
October 24 2022
Five of the country’s maternity hospitals will not be providing abortion services until next year at the earliest, amid conscientious objection from individual obstetricians and a lack of resources.
Another two maternity hospitals are still in talks with the HSE to try to roll out termination of pregnancy services next year, three years after free access to abortion was first legalised in Ireland.
GP says it is unfair to protest at locations where women access health services
Aug 9, 2021
Vivienne Clarke
Anti-abortion campaigners must not be allowed to set up pickets outside facilities providing abortion services, the former president of the Irish College of General Practitioners has said.
Mary Favier expressed surprise at weekend reports that the Government has dropped plans to introduce safe access zones outside maternity hospitals and clinics providing abortion services.
Stephen Donnelly says women's healthcare is a priority for him, responding to a statement from the Department of Health which said existing legislation is sufficient to prevent anti-abortion protests at hospitals
SAT, 07 AUG, 2021
ELAINE LOUGHLIN
The Minister for Health insists he is "fully committed" to legislating for safe access zones around clinics that provide abortion services.
It comes after the Irish Examiner revealed that the Department of Health stated that current public order legislation is adequate to police anti-abortion protests outside hospitals and GP practices.
Continued: https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/politics/arid-40354670.html
Holohan moves to address concerns about 12-week abortion limit
Doctors fearful of criminalisation as women present at 11 weeks’ gestation
Mon, Jan 28, 2019
Jennifer Bray
The chief medical officer, Tony Holohan, has moved to address concerns about doctors performing terminations beyond the 12-week legal limit.
Abortion up until 12 weeks’ gestation became legal at the start of the month, but concerns have been raised that women who present at 11 weeks’ gestation may take more than a week to complete the procedure.
Coombe letter refusing abortion ‘suggests chilling effect’ of law
Couple say they were told anomaly was fatal before hospital dubbed it ‘complex anomaly’
Jan 18, 2019
Kitty Holland, Social Affairs Correspondent
The letter from the Coombe hospital to the couple at the centre of the latest abortion controversy is sympathetic, but clear.
An abortion is not possible in this case as the baby might not die before birth or within 28 days, the legally prescribed time under which abortions in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities are allowed.
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