Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

International Context: Dr. Patricia Lohr, British Pregnancy Advisory Service

1:30 pm

Dr. Patricia Lohr:

I cannot speak to that in Britain because we do not have that. In the United States, when I provided abortion care, I did it during my office hours doing gynaecology. I might have seen one woman for an abortion and the next might have had abnormal uterine bleeding, for example. I might have seen the next woman because of a vaginal discharge. All of those women sat in the waiting room, anonymous to one another about why they were there. They were less likely to be a target. If one comes to an abortion clinic, one is potentially a target.