Dr. Peter Boylan:

From a mother's point of view, we have heard evidence that it is much safer than pregnancy. The mortality rate of mothers from abortion is in the order of one in a million. It is much higher, obviously, in pregnancies that continue on. We need to talk about the belief systems that people have. Many people hold the very firm and sincerely held belief that it is morally wrong in all circumstances to perform an abortion. They firmly believe that it is morally wrong to end a foetal life. That is absolutely true, those views have to be respected and they are quite widely held.

On the other hand, there are huge numbers of people who do not share those beliefs. As I alluded to earlier on, there are people happy to perform terminations for all sorts of different reasons and at different gestational ages, depending on their set of beliefs. One has to depend on what a person's belief systems are. Those are influenced by where they grow up, what they are taught in school, their religious background and so on.