Dr. Catherine Conlon:

Yes, that was the recommendation coming from our analysis of what women were saying their experience was. It was that they could appreciate that for some people, they may want to return for a second consultation. The model of care is a fully funded service to enhance accessibility. In order to keep that spirit of enhanced accessibility in the clinical encounter, as standard practice with any clinical encounter between a doctor and the person seeking care, if the doctor thinks there is any limitation to consent, the recommendation was that the person could be invited to come back for a second consultation and that would also be funded. That is a decision taken in the clinical encounter, as would be standard with any other clinical encounter, as opposed to it being exceptional in the context of abortion.

I agree that if it is standardised for abortion, it has that stigmatising potential.