Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran:

The question was why a women who went to England and had an abortion in a Marie Stopes clinic died in a taxi on her way from it. We need to analyse the root cause of that. The root cause is that Ireland is not providing abortion services here. If that woman had had access to abortion services here and if she had had a complication, she would have gone to a hospital here. There are many cases of Irish women, 70% to 80% of Irish women, who have surgical terminations of pregnancy in England because they go and come back on the same day, whereas 60% to 70% of women in England have medical abortions.