Ms Liz McDermott:

No, I do not think we can. I do not think those two care paths sit well together. The experience in England is that when abortion is an option, it becomes the default option, the expected option, and women can lose their choice and their freedom and can feel almost that people want them to have an abortion because it seems the easiest thing for everyone else and all round. If abortion is legalised in this country, there will not be the will to invest in anything that will conflict with it. People will go one direction for the abortion clinic in a hospital and another direction for all the perinatal hospice care. Those two things seem to me to be mutually exclusive, and it would be very difficult in a concrete, real way for the two to sit together.