Ms Noeline Blackwell:

To be clear, I am speaking here on behalf of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre. What we provide is a totally confidential non-judgmental service. We make no judgment. We aim to help people to run their own lives and worth through whatever trauma they have. In the case of everybody who presents to us, we give them the dignity of the human being that they are when they come in to us. We do not make any judgment. Even if somebody comes to us and chooses a certain course of action, whatever that is, because they have become pregnant as a result of rape, we assure them that we are there to help them deal with the trauma of rape, which is what we are expert in.