No vote in referendum will mean ‘backstreet abortion’ retained

No vote in referendum will mean ‘backstreet abortion’ retained
Rhona Mahony tells London event clinicians need current legal regime to change

April 12, 2018

A No vote in the May referendum on repealing the Eighth Amendment would represent a decision to retain “backstreet abortion” in Ireland, the Master of the National Maternity Hospital has said.

Speaking at a meeting in London on Wednesday night, Dr Rhona Mahony said about 1,000 women accessed abortion tablets over the internet each year and take them in an “unsupervised way, totally unsupported”.

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