Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran:

As I mentioned earlier, if it is done early, it is a medical termination whereas when a woman goes late, it is a surgical termination. The complications are much greater with surgical termination. The second issue is they cannot have a medical termination in the UK because they go one day and have to travel back so they all end up in late surgical termination at 11 weeks or 12 weeks. If it is done in Ireland with the legislation, they could have a medical termination at seven or eight weeks with minimal complications, minimal blood loss and minimal chance of infection.