Ms Janice Donlon:

Our priority and that of the funded services and their ethic of care is to support women and not dissuade them from attending either medical or counselling services where they have taken the abortion pill. Our website, www.abortionaftercare.ie, has information that encourages women with complications following the taking of the abortion pill to seek medical advice and not to be fearful in doing so. It is an incredibly difficult area for the woman and the counsellor to support a woman through this.

It is a difficult area for the woman and it is a difficult area for the counsellor in terms of supporting a woman through this, but our primary concern is that women are not dissuaded from seeking the medical attention they require should they have complications.