Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 October 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

Crisis Pregnancy and Primary Care: Irish College of General Practitioners

2:00 pm

Photo of Catherine NooneCatherine Noone (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To be clear, I was attempting to clarify afterwards so that Deputy Durkan could continue with what he was saying. Dr. Abigail Aiken stated:

When Irish women choose this online telemedicine model, what are their experiences? Exhibit 6 [we normally have screens, but we cannot show this exhibit today because we do not have screens in this particular committee room] shows the feelings reported by 1,000 women who went through the early medication abortion with Women on Web between 2010 and 2012... By far the most commonly reported feeling was relief - that was about 70% of women - followed by satisfaction at about 36%. Many reported a mix of emotions, for example, feeling both sad and relieved or feeling both loss and empowerment. Among the sample, 98% felt they had made the right choice and would recommend the at-home telemedicine model to another woman in Ireland in a similar situation.

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