Ivana Bacik (Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----and its decision to offer services within the law to women in Northern Ireland seeking to terminate pregnancies. That clinic has stated clearly that it will operate within the law. Northern Irish law is different to the law in the Republic. It does allow abortion on various grounds, albeit still limited grounds. At least the Marie Stopes clinic is accepting the reality that faces many thousands of Irish women. Let us not forget that 4,000 Irish women a year still travel to England to avail of abortion or termination of pregnancy services there. As we heard in this House, some of those women faced dreadfully sad cases of fatal foetal abnormality and yet we have no compassion for those women in terms of being able to offer them the sort of treatment they wish to receive in this country.