Seanad debates

Wednesday, 7 November 2012

2:50 pm

Photo of Rónán MullenRónán Mullen (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I said it was a complicating factor. It is inappropriate that the Minister has not yet commented on this scandal as it is a matter of the utmost public interest and urgency. Is it safe practice for counsellors to give information about how to illegally smuggle an abortion pill into Ireland and take it without medical supervision? Is it legal for counsellors to tell women that they should falsify their medical histories to claim they had a miscarriage in the event of post-abortion complications, given that this could endanger their lives, according to someone no less than the master of the Rotunda Hospital? Is it legal for Irish counselling services to enter into arrangements with foreign abortion clinics which offer reduced rates to Irish women if they received counselling in Ireland, given the requirements of the Regulation of Information (Services Outside the State For Termination of Pregnancies) Act 1995? Why does the IFPA continue to promote an abortion clinic in Calthorpe in Birmingham which is the subject of police-----

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