Dr. Peter Boylan:

As the Senator will probably appreciate, I was referring to when a person imports pills from an undocumented source - especially into this country - and we are not sure where the pills come from. It is well known that some medications that are supplied over the Internet are not what they purport to be. There is another issue of concern, which is that women will be taking these pills without medical supervision and that has its own inherent dangers. There is also the psychological impact on women. One can picture a young woman in an apartment who has managed to get the pills. She is terrified that she will be found out for having taken the pills - as has happened in Northern Ireland - and that she could end up being prosecuted. That has a huge further psychological impact to her, on top of the distress of having a termination of pregnancy. No woman goes out in the morning or wakes up and says "Ah sure I will have a termination today". It is a very stressful process and women remember these things for the rest of their lives.