Dr. Peter Boylan:

Any hospital that is owned by the Catholic church would be forbidden by its rules from facilitating any terminations of pregnancy, as well as contraception, sterilisation and all other issues integral to women's health. There are some maternity units and gynaecological services in hospitals around the country that are owned by religious and do not carry out sterilisation or Mirena coil insertion owing to heavy periods as opposed to for contraceptive purposes. There is a bit of hypocrisy going on.