Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 31 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion

Dr. Catherine Conlon:

I guess the methodology we used allowed us to hear in detail the experience of actually navigating the care pathway until you find a provider. The way we portrayed it was that if you did not know about My Options, that was not your first port of call and you were contacting GPs themselves. The way we portrayed the collective account was that it was like running the gauntlet. You could hear very negative responses to your asking for abortion care, if that was the case. We had one migrant woman living in the west of Ireland who attended seven GPs before she was referred to My Options.

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