Professor Eva Pajkrt:

The woman will have to make an appointment. If she is here and calls the clinic or sends an email to say she would really like to have an abortion, she will make up the five-day waiting period by the time she arrives in the Netherlands. It is not the case that she has to be physically present to say she wants to have an abortion. It starts on the day she requests an abortion. The clinics know this and they say fine and they will book her in. If the woman shows up on the day, she has apparently been thinking about it, and she is consistent in her request, the clinic will proceed with the abortion.