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Abortion Clinic to open in Befast next week

  • 11-10-2012 9:31am
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    Rabidlamb
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    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/private-abortion-clinic-to-open-its-doors-in-belfast-next-week-3256427.html

    Some of the headlines
    The medical abortion will be offered up to nine weeks' gestation. It is also expected that people will travel from all over the island of Ireland for the service.
    The latest figures show around 12 women a day in all types of circumstances travel from Ireland to the UK for terminations. Many women in Ireland opt not to carry babies with fatal conditions to full term and with abortion banned under Irish law, instead opt to travel to the UK for a medical termination.

    Last year, 4,149 women from Ireland travelled to England or Wales for an abortion, as did 1,007 women from Northern Ireland. Earlier this year four women who travelled to Britain for medical terminations told their stories to TDs and helped spark a public debate on the issue of the strict legal ban on abortion.
    The cost for an medical abortion will be £430 (€535) at the Belfast centre. This will include the consultation, scan to confirm pregnancy and the length of the term, counselling and assessment to see if the woman is eligible.

    My own thoughts on this.
    It removes today's fallacy of women having to travel to Wales for the procedure, the Irish solution to the Irish problem.
    I am happy with the much shorter gestational term of 9 weeks imposed, especially now premature babies born at 24 weeks are surviving regularly.
    The thought of terminating frog spawn always sat easier with me than terminating a recognisable human being.

    This topic is already been discussed in the Atheism forum but I felt it warranted a larger audience.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=81190490


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