Professor Mary Higgins:

To follow on from that point, Holles Street is a leader in abortion care. Dr. Mahony and I were involved in the model of care and the guidelines. Indeed, we have written most of them with our colleagues. We were one of the first providers to provide under sections 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the Act. We provide care for women in all aspects of legal care and we will continue to do that because that is our ethos as a hospital. The ethos of the clinical staff of the hospital is to provide respectful care to women and transgender men. We have a guideline on abortion care for transgender men. That is how dedicated we are and that is our culture and ethos. I really dislike this assumption that there are nuns out there who are going to somehow mind influence me to stop me from providing care that is respectful for women and transgender men. It is disrespectful to our beliefs as doctors, midwives and nurses.