Ms Liz McDermott:

We are there to support parents in their pregnancy. Lots of people asked why I did not write a letter to complain about the hospital and the treatment and tell the whole story. I have to say, whenever it happens to a woman, she just wants to be away fro it. She just does not want to go back there. One is too upset at the time to even say the words. This happened to me in 2002 and 2003, and I am finally able to talk about it without getting upset. That is a real reason people would not want to jump up and down and make an official complaint about it. They are very vulnerable. However, it is important for there to be somewhere for people to go with that experience. I agree that if it can be collated into some kind of submission to hospitals to clean up their act and desist from this kind of pressure, that would be important. However, on the Deputy's point that we should make abortion safe, legal and free, it will be very expensive. In the UK, where abortion is supplied on the National Health Service, over £750 million of taxpayers' money has been paid to private sector abortion clinics since abortion was legalised. The boss of Marie Stopes received £420,000 as a salary in one recent year alone. That is four times the UK Prime Minister's salary.